JSLih 219

Siglum
JSLih 219
Alternative Sigla
JaL 138, Grimme 1937: 311
Transliteration
ʿlyh ḍrṭ
OCIANA
Translation
ʿlyh farted
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Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Jaussen & Savignac followed by Grimme: ṭrḍ rather than ḍrṭ; Jamme: ʿlyl rather than ʿlyh. Jaussen & Savignac consider the letter h of the first personal name, belonging to the second personal name. TRANSLATION ʿlyh, Grimme: 'upon him'; ḍrṭ, Jamme: '(he) has emitted a wind from the anus'. DISCUSSION Grimme 1937: 278.
Commentary
The word ḍrṭ is found several times as a rude addition to Safaitic inscriptions, see for instance C 2797, 3261, 3951, 4418, WH 2144, 2186, KRS 2270, BRenv.J 37, WTI 41.

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Technique
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Direction of Script
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  • [BRenv.J] Inscriptions recorded by the Safaitic Epigraphic Survey Programme in 1995 at an outcrop and cairn approximately 30 m south of the Rushaydah–Zalaf road, 1.2 km east of the water tower at Biʾr al-Ruṣayʿī, and published here.
  • Grimme, H. Neubearbeitung der Wichtigeren Dedanischen und Liḥjanischen Inschriften. Le Muséon 50, 1937: 269-322.
  • [JaL] Jamme, A. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe VII. Washington, DC: [privately produced], 1974. pp 106 Plate 27
  • [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 488–489 Plate CXXXIII
  • [KRS] Inscriptions recorded by Geraldine King on the Basalt Desert Rescue Survey in north-eastern Jordan in 1989 and published here
  • [C] Ryckmans, G. Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum: Pars Quinta, Inscriptiones Saracenicae Continens: Tomus I, Fasciculus I, Inscriptiones Safaiticae. Paris: E Reipublicae Typographeo, 1950–1951.
  • [WH] Winnett, F.V. & Harding, G.L. Inscriptions from Fifty Safaitic Cairns. (Near and Middle East Series, 9). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1978.
  • [W.Dad] Winnett, F.V. & Reed, W.L. Ancient Records from North Arabia. with contributions by J.T. Milik and J. Starcky. (Near and Middle East Series, 6). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1970.
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
#0035059
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