JSLih 272

Siglum
JSLih 272
Alternative Sigla
Scagliarini 1994: 334–338, no. 44, Al-Qudrah 1993: 40, no. 104, CLL 106
Transliteration
ṯmm / yʿmm
mds¹ / twṣy
ʿbdy / ʿwṣ
w ʿbdḫrg
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Translation
Ṯmm yʿmm
mds¹ twṣy
the two slaves ʿwṣ
and ʿbdḫrg
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Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 2. Al-Qudrah: tmm yʿmr for ṯmm yʿmm; Scagliarini: yʿmd rather than yʿmm; Caskel followed by Al-Qudrah and Scagliarini: gds¹ for mds¹; Caskel followed by Al-Qudrah: tʿṣy rather than twṣy; Scagliarini: tfṣy for twṣy. Line 4. Jaussen & Savignac: ʿbdḫrg rather thanʿbdḫrm; Scagliarini: ṭ(w)n dḫ(r)g for w ʿbdḫrm. TRANSLATION Lines 1–4. Caskel: '(he) has made hard soil for cultivation. The both slaves ʿAwṣ and ʿAbdḫarg were disobedient'. Lines 2–4: '(he) compressed the revolt (?)' of ʿAbdʿAws¹ and of ʿAbdḫarīm'.
Commentary
The inscription is difficult to interpret with any confidence.

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

  • Al-Qudrah, Ḥ.M. Dirāsah muʿǧamiyyah li-ʾlfāẓ al-nuqūš al-liḥyāniyyah fī iṭār 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 Unpublished MA Thesis, Epigraphy Section, Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, Yarmouk University, Irbid. 1993.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 129
  • [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 503–505 Plate CXXXV
  • [NAU] Scagliarini, F. Le iscrizioni liḥyānitiche dell'Oasi di al-ʿUlā. Dottorato di ricerca in semitistica: linguistica semitica, Universita' degli studi di Firenze, anni accademici 1992-1994 . [unpublished thesis]. 1994. No. 44 pp 334–338 Plate XXXVI, XXXVII
Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Date Found
1909–1910
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Name only, Slave
Old OCIANA ID
#0035128
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