JSLih 276

Siglum
JSLih 276
Alternative Sigla
D 075, Scagliarini 1994: 338–339, no. 45, 31, no. 75, Al-Qudrah 1993, Drewes 1983: 427, no. 8, CLL 101, Grimme 1937: 306
Transliteration
zdlh / bn / klb / ḏ- ʿmrtʿ / f ʿrr / ḏġbt / ʿrr / ʾ- s¹fr / ḏh
OCIANA
Translation
By / son of / Zdlh son of Klb of the lineage of ʿmrtʿ and so Ḏġbt dishonour the dishonourer of this inscription
OCIANA
Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Grimme followed by Al-Qudrah: h- s¹fr rather than ʾs¹fr'; Caskel does not read klb. TRANSLATION ʿrr, Jaussen & Savignac followed by Caskel: personal name; ʾs¹fr, Jaussen & Savignac followed by Caskel: '(he) has wrote'. DISCUSSION Ryckmans, G. 1937: 328. Macdonald 2000: 52-53 regards this inscription as Dadano-Arabic. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary
The form ʾ- s¹fr may be the Arabic definite article ʾl-, with the assimilation of the /l/ before a following sibilant, or it may be a definite article ʾ-, as in AH 119, 138. Compare the occasional ʾ- definite article in Safaitic, (Al-Jallad 2015: 16). The group name ʿmrtʿ occurs many times in the Minaic and Dadanitic inscriptions from al-ʿUlā, see for example JSMin 11/6, 69, 86, 94, etc. and JSLih 245, 281, 288, U 72, U 090, AHUD 1, Müller, D.H. 1889: 83-84, no. 57.

Editio Princeps
Jaussen & Savignac 1914: 505-506

Technique
Incised
Direction of Script
Horizontal line right to left

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Site
Al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Date Found
1909–1910
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Curse, Deity, Lineage, Religion
Old OCIANA ID
#0035132
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