JaL 012 a
Text Information
- Siglum
- JaL 012 a
- Transliteration
-
ḏ
ḥzn / ʾf-
klOCIANA - Translation
-
ḏ
Ḥzn pri-
estOCIANA - Language and Script
- Dadanitic
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- TRANSLATION Lines 1–2: Jamme: 'Ḥazan [of the family of] ʾAfkal'. DISCUSSION Macdonald 2004: 509, for ḏ as an apotropaic symbol.
- Commentary
- The isolated ḏ above of the graffito is probably an apotropaic sign.
- Editio Princeps
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Copy only
- Direction of Script
- Horizontal line right to left
- Associated Signs
- A ḏ sign; cartouche
- Associated Drawings
- A camel
- Associated Inscriptions
- It is above of JaL 012b
- [JaL] Jamme, A. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe VII. Washington, DC: [privately produced], 1974. pp 19–20 Plate 2
- 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.
- Site
- Al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Apotropaic sign, Religion
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0036693
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Updated
08 Jan, 2025
by
OCIANA
Cite this Site
OCIANA, 'JaL 012 a,' ed. A. Al-Jallad and M.C.A. Macdonald, OCIANA, 08 Jan, 2025. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/14521. Accessed: 06 Mar, 2026.