JSLih 384

Siglum
JSLih 384
Alternative Sigla
D 158, Al-Qudrah 1993: 45, no. 129, Déroche 1987: 126–127, Jamme 1968: 124, CLL 092, Winnett 1937: 15, Grimme 1937: 319
Transliteration
nfs¹ / ʿbds¹mn / bn
zdḫrg / ʾlt / bnh
s¹lmh / bnt / {ʾ}s¹
ʾrs²n /
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Translation
By / son of The funeral monument of ʿbds¹mn son of
Zdḫrg which built
S¹lmh daughter of {ʾs¹
ʾrs²n}
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Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 1. Jaussen & Savignac: zdḫrm rather than zdḫrg. Line 3. Jamme: gnt for bnt. TRANSLATION Line 2. ʾlt, Jaussen & Savignac: divinity (as the third part of the compound name zdḫrg ʾlt; Jamme: personal name. Lines 3–4. s¹lmh bnt {ʾ}s¹ʾ rs²n, Grimme: 'S¹almāh son of Tʾ---- (of the lineage of) ʾrs²n'; Line 4. ʾrs²n, Caskel: patronymic; Farès-Drappeau: lineage name; s¹lmn, Jamme: 'his big stone'. DISCUSSION Déroche 1987: 104. Macdonald 2000: 50.
Commentary
The translation has followed the syntax of the original and a more idiomatic version would be 'The funeral monument of ʿbds¹mn son of Zdḫrg which S¹lmh daughter of {ʾs¹ʾrs²n}'. built. Walter W Müller was the first to recognize that this text was not Dadanitic in language but in Old Arabic, since it contains the Arabic feminine relative pronoun ʾlt (compare Arabic allatī) in line 2. Note that in this dialect, final [-at] had become [-ah] or [-ā] thus bnh (= *banah or *banā) instead of the bnt (*banat, "she built") which we find elsewhere in Ancient North Arabian, and the name s¹lmh (*s¹ulaymah or *s¹ālimā), which elsewhere in Ancient North Arabian would be s¹lmt (*s¹ulaylmat, *s¹ālimat). This change has not, of course, taken place in the word bnt (daughter of) because the final [-t] is not preceded by [a]. [Ahmad Al-Jallad personal communication and see Overlaet, Macdonald & Stein 2016: 137, n. 23].

Editio Princeps
Jaussen & Savignac 1914: 532-533

Technique
Incised
Direction of Script
Horizontal line right to left

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Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Date Found
1909–1910
Current Location
In situ (Inventory number: O.715)
Subjects
Building, Funerary, Relatives, Structure, Women
Old OCIANA ID
#0035802
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