JSLih 284

Siglum
JSLih 284
Alternative Sigla
Winnett 1938: 302, Grimme 1937: 321
Transliteration
ḏ / grm / h- zmr / ḏ
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Translation
ḏ Grm the flute-player ḏ
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Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Jaussen & Savignac: mrm for grm; Winnett: grg rather than grm. Grimme followed by Winnett: hnmr rather than hzmr. TRANSLATION ḏ, Jaussen & Savignac: second one as relative pronoun. Grimme: exclamation particle. DISCUSSION Ryckmans, G. 1937: 327. Déroche 1987: 108. Macdonald 2004: 509: for ḏ as an apotropaic sign.
Commentary
Caskel (1954: 95-96) mistakenly identified CLL 036 as JSLih 284, but it should be JSLih 124. The ḏ at each end of the text is probably an apotropaic abbreviation of the divine name ḏ-ġbt. The text is repeated in a less formal letter shapes in Jabal al-Ḫuraybah 1. For the interpretation of the word zmr cf. Arabic zammār "a flute player" (Lane 1250c) or player upon a mizmār "a double reed-pipe" (Lane 1251a). This would seem to be what the instrument was since in the drawing accompanying HCH 79 a woman playing a double flute is described as zmrt (cf. Arabic zåmirah, Lane 1250c).

Editio Princeps
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Technique
Incised
Direction of Script
Horizontal line right to left

  • [CLL] Caskel, W. Lihyan und Lihyanisch. (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Forschung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Geisteswissenschaften, 4). Köln: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1954. pp 95–96
  • Déroche, F. Recherches sur l'oasis de Dedan / al-Ula. Thèse de Doctorat: Études arabo-islamiques, Paris IV, 1987. [Unpublished], 1987.
  • Grimme, H. Neubearbeitung der Wichtigeren Dedanischen und Liḥjanischen Inschriften. Le Muséon 50, 1937: 269-322.
  • [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 508 Plate XCII, 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.
  • Ryckmans, G. Le déchiffrement des inscriptions liḥyanites et thamoudénnes [Review of Winnett 1937 (WLT)]. Le Muséon 50, 1937: 323-337.
  • Winnett, F.V. Notes on the Lihyanite and Thamudic Inscriptions. Le Muséon 51, 1938: 299-310.
Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Date Found
1909–1910
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Apotropaic sign, Name only
Old OCIANA ID
#0035141
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