Al-Saʿīd 1420/1999: 3–14, no. 1
Text Information
- Siglum
- Al-Saʿīd 1420/1999: 3–14, no. 1
- Alternative Sigla
- Sima 2000: 255–257; D 159; TMLT no. 5
- Transliteration
- ----krn/w hn- ʿs²rt/ʿs²rt/ʾ---- ----m/w hblh/w zdlh/bn{y} ----gfw/ḏġbt/b- mb{ġ}d/ḥ{b} ----m/ym/s¹tḥbl/ʾqd/h- rʿ/f rḍ -hm/w ----[s¹][n]{t}/ʿs²r/w ts¹ʿ/b- rʾy/h- rʿ/tlmy/hnʾs¹
- Translation
- ---- the community community of ---- ----m and Hblh and Zdlh {sons of} ---- gfw Ḏġbt in {Mbġd} ḥ{b} ----m day S¹tḥbl offered the (sheep) pasture and so favour them and ----{year} nineteen in the government of the keeper (the protector) Tlmy Hnʾs¹
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- TEXT Line 1. Sima followed by Al-Saʿīd, Farès-Drappeau and Al-Turkī: ʾ{s¹} rather than ʾ----. Line 3. Al-Saʿīd followed by Al-Turkī: ----gmw rather than gfw; Farès-Drappeau: mbġṯ for mbġd. Line 4. Al-Saʿīd followed by Al-Turkī: s¹tḥby ʾfd for s¹tḥbl ʾqd; Sima: s¹tḥb---- for s¹tḥbl and lrʿ for hrʿ; Farès-Drappeau:ʾfd for ʾqd. TRANSLATION Line 1. Sima does not translate this line; Farès-Drappeau: 'the ten of the family of ʾs¹' Line 4. ym s¹tḥbl ʾqd h- rʿ, Farès-Drappeau: 'the day when S¹tbḥl cultivated the pasture'. Line 5. h- rʿ, Al-Saʿīd followed by Sima: as title; Farès-Drappeau: 'the benevolent'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
- Commentary
- Only the copy is available. In Sabaic ʿs²rt means 'the nomad group' (Beeston et al. 1982: 21). In Classical Arabic ʿašīrat and ʿašīr has the meaning 'community' (Lane 1863-1893: 2053a).
- Provenance
- Al-Ḫuraybah
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Al-Turkī, H.M. Al-malik al-liḥyānī (tlmy bn hnʾws) ruʾyah min ḫalāl al-nuqūš. Maǧallat ǧāmiʿat al-malik saʿūd 25: al-siyāḥah wa-ʾl-āṯār 1, 1434/2013: 73-83. No. 5 pp 78
- 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 225–226
- Lane, E.W. An Arabic-English Lexicon, Derived from the Best and Most Copious Eastern Sources. (Volume 1 in 8 parts [all published]). London: Williams & Norgate, 1863-1893.
- Beeston, A.F.L., Ghul, M.A., Müller, W.W. & Ryckmans, J. Sabaic Dictionary (English-French-Arabic). Publication of the University of Sanaa, YAR. Louvain-la-Neuve: Peeters / Beyrouth: Librairie du Liban, 1982.
- Sima, A. Neue Beiträge zur lihyanischen Epigraphik I. Arabian archaeology and epigraphy 11, 2000: 252-260.
- Al-Saʿīd, S.F. Nuqūš liḥyāniyyah ġayr manšūrah min al-matḥaf al-waṭanī al-ǝiyāḍ — al-mamlakah al-ʿarabiyyah al-Saʿūdiyyah. (Našrah baḥṯiyyah, 14). Al-Riyadh: ǧāmiʿat al-malik saʿūd, 1420/1999.
- 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
- King ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Library, Riyāḍ (44/1)
- Subjects
- Deity, Genealogy, Historical
- Script
- Dadanitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0036432
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