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Al-Ḫuraybah 17

Text Information

Siglum
Al-Ḫuraybah 17
Transliteration
[----] f/mm---- ---- l- ddn/l- ʾbd/---- ----rs¹/mn/s¹rqt/ʾym---- ----{m}n/s¹rq/f- ʾn/yṣbr/b- m- -h/s¹r[q]---- ----{d}n/thḍ -h/kll -h/f ḥṯm ---- ----hs¹rqt/yṭb/h- s¹rq/ʾw/y ---- ----bh
Translation
[----] f mm---- ---- to Ddn for ever ---- ---- rs¹ who steals any ---- ----{who} stole, thus he should be arrested for what {he has stolen} ---- ----{d}n breaks the whole of it and so ḥṯm ---- ---- the robbery whether the thief keeps or y---- ----bh

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 1. Al-Saʿīd: f mmmḥ{b} rather than f mm----. Line 2. Al-Saʿīd: l- ʾbd {ṣ}---- for l- ʾbd----. Line 3. Al-Saʿīd: ----[y]ḥrs¹ for ----rs¹ and ʾym{n}---- for ʾym----.

Provenance
Al-Ḫuraybah
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Incised

  • Al-Saʿīd, S.F. Nuqūš dādān: dalālah wa-ʾl-maḍmūn. Pages 281-302 in Al-Saʿīd, S.F. & Al-Ghazī, ʿA. (eds), Kunūz aṯariyyah min dādān. Natāʾiǧ tanqībāt al-mawāsim al-sabaʿah al-ūlā. Volume 2. (Dirāsāt āṯāriyyah mīydāniyyah, 1). Riyadh: Al-ǧamʿiyah al-saʿūdiyyah li-l-dirāsāt al-aṯariyyah, 1434–1435/2013–2014. No. 9 pp 299–300
Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ (109, D.2.)
Subject
Place-name
Script
Dadanitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0038733
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