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Müller, D.H. 1889: 68, no. 16

Text Information

Siglum
Müller, D.H. 1889: 68, no. 16
Alternative Sigla
CLL 065; D 024
Transliteration
[----] ---- h/ʾṣdqn b---- w b/ḏmr/ḏġbt ---- ----h/h- bt/ḏh ----
Translation
[----] ----h rightful heirs b---- and Ḏmrḏġbt ---- ----h this sanctuary ----

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TRANSLATION Line 2. ḏmr ḏġbt, Müller, D.H.: 'Ḏamār of Ġābat'; b ḏmr ḏġbt, Caskel: 'and in the protection Ḏġbt'. Line 3. h- bt, Müller, D.H. followed by Caskel: 'this house'. Farès-Drappeau does not translate this text. DISCUSSION Macdonald 2004: 504 §4.1.2.2 (3). Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.

Provenance
The former village of Al-ʿUlā
Original Reading Credit
Müller, D.H. 1889: 68-69, no. 16
Original Translation Credit
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Technique
In relief

  • Caskel, W. Lihyan und Lihyanisch. (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Forschung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Geisteswissenschaften, 4). Köln: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1954. pp 105–106
  • 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 145–146
  • Müller, D.H. Epigraphische Denkmäler aus Arabien. (nach Abklatschen und Copien des Herrn Professor Dr. Julius Euting in Strassburg). Borgelegt in der Sitzung am 9. Mai 1888. (Denkschriften der (kaiserlichen) Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 37.2). Wien: Tempsky, 1889.
  • 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.
  • Hidalgo-Chacón Díez. M. del C. The divine names at Dadan: a philological approach. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 46, 2016: 125–136
Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Religion, Structure
Script
Dadanitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0036395
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