JSLih 151

Siglum
JSLih 151
Alternative Sigla
D 036, Al-Qudrah 1993: 47-48, no. 139, Jamme 1974: 121–122, note 19, CLL 044
Transliteration
mnmt
wdd ----{l}
l- ʾwlbt
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Translation
Mnmt
Wdd ----{l}
by ʾwlbt
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Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 1. Jaussen & Savignac read boustrophedon; Farès-Drappeau: mlmt for mnmt. Line 3. Jamme: mʾ wlbt rather than l ʾwlbt; Caskel followed by Al-Qudrah: m ʾwhbt for l- ʾwlbt; Farès-Drappeau does not consider this line. TRANSLATION Line 1. mnmt, Caskel: 'A greeting'; Al-Qudrah: 'from Mt, greeting'. Lines 1–2. Farès-Drappeau does not translate these lines.
Commentary
The letters m face in the opposite direction to the rest of the text.

Editio Princeps
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Technique
Copy only
Direction of Script
Horizontal line right to left

  • Al-Qudrah, Ḥ.M. Dirāsah muʿǧamiyyah li-ʾalfāẓ al-nuqūš al-liḥyāniyyah fī ʾiṭār al-luġāt al-sāmiyyah al-ǧanūbiyyah. Unpublished MA Thesis, Epigraphy Section, Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, Yarmouk University, Irbid. 1993.
  • [CLL] Caskel, W. Lihyan und Lihyanisch. (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Forschung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Geisteswissenschaften, 4). Köln: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1954. pp 98
  • [D] Farès-Drappeau, S. Dédan et Liḥyān. Histoire des Arabes aux confins des pouvoirs perse et hellénistique (IVe–IIe s. avant l'ère chrétienne). (Travaux de la maison de l'Orient, 42). Lyon: Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée — Jean Pouilloux, 2005. pp 153 Plate XI
  • [Eut] Jamme, A. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe V. Washington, DC: [privately produced], 1974. pp 121–122, note 19
  • [JSTham] Jaussen, A. & Savignac, M.R. Mission archéologique en Arabie. I. (Mars-Mai 1907) De Jérusalem au Hedjaz, Médain Saleh. II. El-ʿEla, d'Hégra à Teima Harrah de Tebouk. Texte et Atlas. III. Les châteaux arabes de Quṣeir ʿAmra, Ḫarâneh, et Tûba. (5 volumes). (Publications de la Société Française des Fouilles Archéologiques, 2). [Reprinted Cairo: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1997]. Paris: Leroux/Geuthner, 1909–1920. Vol. II pp 473 Plate CXXXI
Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Date Found
1909–1910
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Name only
Old OCIANA ID
#0034976
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