Graf Abū al-Ḍibāʿ 1

Text Information

Siglum
Graf Abū al-Ḍibāʿ 1
Alternative Sigla
Al-Qudrah 1993: 63, no. 225
Transliteration
----ʾgr / w {h}{n}ʾl
byt / b- lwh / ḍlḍ
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Translation
----ʾgr. And {Hnʾl}
spent the night at Lwh Ḍlḍ
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Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 1. Graf followed by Al-Qudrah: wknʾl for hnʾ. Line 2. Graf: ḍl wasm rather than ḍlḍ. TRANSLATION Line 2. byt blwh, Graf followed by Al-Qudrah: '(he) built his tomb'.
Commentary
Line 2. The word byt is clearly the verb "to spend the night", rather than the noun "house", since in Dadanitic orthography the medial diphthong (*-ay) is not represented.

Editio Princeps
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Technique
Incised
Direction of Script
Horizontal line right to left

Associated Signs
Cartouche

  • Al-Qudrah, Ḥ.M. Dirāsah muʿǧamiyyah li-ʾlfāẓ al-nuqūš al-liḥyāniyyah fī iṭār al-luġāt al-sāmiyyah al-ǧanūbiyyah. Unpublished MA Thesis, Epigraphy Section, Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, Yarmouk University, Irbid. 1993.
  • Graf, D.F. Dedanite and Minaean (South Arabian) Inscriptions from the Ḥisma. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 27, 1983: 555-569, pl. 121-122.
Site
ʾAbū al-Ḍibāʿ, near Ǧabal ʿAṭrah, Al-Karak Governorate, Jordan
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Lineage
Old OCIANA ID
#0036435
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