JSLih 277
Text Information
- Siglum
- JSLih 277
- Alternative Sigla
- D 076, Al-Qudrah 1993: 40, no. 102, CLL 104
- Transliteration
-
ḏ ʿl{m} {ʾ}fkl l{t}
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- Translation
-
ḏ {ʿlm} {priest of} {Lt}
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- Language and Script
- Dadanitic
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- TRANSLATION ḏʿlm, Jaussen & Savignac followed by Farès-Drappeau: personal name; Caskel followed by Al-Qudrah: ḏ as 'this'. DISCUSSION Macdonald 2004: 509, for ḏ as an apotropaic sign.
- Commentary
- It is possible that the final letter is h and so the author was a priest of lh (see JSLih 061).
- Editio Princeps
- Jaussen & Savignac 1914: 506
- 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 Unpublished MA Thesis, Epigraphy Section, Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, Yarmouk University, Irbid. 1993.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 128
- [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 181 Plate XXII
- [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 506 Plate CXXXV
- Macdonald, M.C.A. Ancient North Arabian. Pages 488-533 in R.D. Woodard (ed.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
- Site
- The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
- Date Found
- 1909–1910
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Apotropaic sign, Religion
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0035133
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