Graf Abū al-Ḍibāʿ 2

Siglum
Graf Abū al-Ḍibāʿ 2
Alternative Sigla
Farès-Drappeau 1995: 493–497, Al-Qudrah 1993: 63, no. 226
Transliteration
{ʾ}bs¹lm / w bʿlḥ{y} w
s²b w {b}rʿn w hd
w mkʾḫ / ḥwyn mṭr
b- {ḏ}wh / ymn
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Translation
By Mkʾḫ son of / {ʾbs¹lm} and {Bʿlḥy} and
S²b and Brʿn and Hd
and Mkʾḫ took possession of the rain-watered field
in {Ḏwh} two days
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Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 2. Graf followed by Al-Qudrah: nk for s²b; Farès-Drappeau: w s²b for s²b. Line 3. Graf followed by Al-Qudrah: wmkʾṣ for w mkʾḫ; hwyn "show us". Line 4. Graf followed by Al-Qudrah: ----wd for b- {ḏ}wh. TRANSLATION Line 3. mṭr, Graf followed by Al-Qudrah: 'rain''. Lines 3–4. Farès-Drappeau: 'and Makʾaḫ they gathered rain water in Ḏiwah (Ḏawiha ?). Prosperity!'.
Commentary
Line 1 reads from right to left, lines 2–4 from left to right.

Editio Princeps
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Technique
Incised
Direction of Script
Boustrophedon

  • 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 Unpublished MA Thesis, Epigraphy Section, Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, Yarmouk University, Irbid. 1993.
  • Farès-Drappeau, S. L'inscription de type dédanite de Abū aḍ-Ḍibāʿ / Wādī Ramm: une nouvelle lecture. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 39, 1995: 493-497.
  • 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
Subjects
Date (other), Place-name, Watering
Old OCIANA ID
#0036436
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