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Müller, D.H. 1889: 69, no. 17

Text Information

Siglum
Müller, D.H. 1889: 69, no. 17
Alternative Sigla
Grimme 1937: 303; CLL 014; D 025
Transliteration
{h}{ḏ} l- ḏ– ġbt/f rḍy -h w ---- [----]
Translation
{this} to Ḏ– ġbt and so may he favour him and ---- [----]

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 1. Müller, D.H.: db for {h}{ḏ}; Caskel followed by Farès-Drappeau: dʾ for {h}{ḏ}. Line 3. Müller, D.H. followed by Grimme: rṭy rather than rḍy. None of the authors consider more line. These can be seen on the photograph. TRANSLATION Line 4. Caskel: 'two life-spans to him'.
Commentary
The remains of a Dadanitic inscription on a fragment of a pillar. It was found by Julius Euting

Provenance
Found in the former village of Al-ʿUlā. It was taken back to Germany by Julius Euting and given to the Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire de Strasbourg (Euting 1914: 245) where it remains.
Original Reading Credit
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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 82–83
  • 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 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.
  • Grimme, H. Neubearbeitung der Wichtigeren Dedanischen und Liḥjanischen Inschriften. Le Muséon 50, 1937: 269-322.
  • Euting, J. Tagbuch einer Reise in Inner-Arabien. 2. Leiden: Brill, 1914.
Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Date Found
1884
Current Location
Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire de Strasbourg (2014.1.214)
Subjects
Deity, Isolated Prayer, Religion
Script
Dadanitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0036396
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