Jabal al-Ḫuraybah 1
Text Information
- Siglum
- Jabal al-Ḫuraybah 1
- Transliteration
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ḏ ʿb{d}yḥ{g} ḏ
ḏ grm / h- zmr ḏOCIANA - Translation
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Ḏ {ʿbdyḥg} Ḏ
Ḏ Grm/ the flute-player ḎOCIANA - Language and Script
- Dadanitic
Interpretation
- Commentary
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The inscription does not seem to have been recorded before. It is high up in the same natural "niche" as JSLih 071 and can only be seen with binoculars or a telephoto lens. The first line is very faint but the second is clear. Both lines begin and end with ḏ which is probably an apotropaic abbreviation of the divine name ḏ-ġbt. The name ʿbdyḥg has not been found before. For the interpretation of the word zmr cf. Arabic zammār "a flute player" (Lane 1250c) or player upon a mizmār "a double reed-pipe" (Lane 1251a). This would seem to be what the instrument was since in the drawing accompanying HCH 79 a woman playing a double flute is described as zmrt (cf. Arabic zåmirah, Lane 1250c). The content of the second line is repeated in a more formal version of the script in JSLih 284.
- Associated Inscriptions
- [HCH] Harding, G.L. The Cairn of Haniʾ. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 2, 1953: 8-56, pls 1-7.
- [JSTham] Jaussen, A. & Savignac, M.R. Mission archéologique en Arabie. I. (Mars-Mai 1907) De Jérusalem au Hedjaz, Médain Saleh. II. El-ʿEla, d'Hégra à Teima Harrah de Tebouk. Texte et Atlas. III. Les châteaux arabes de Quṣeir ʿAmra, Ḫarâneh, et Tûba. (5 volumes). (Publications de la Société Française des Fouilles Archéologiques, 2). [Reprinted Cairo: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1997]. Paris: Leroux/Geuthner, 1909–1920.
- [Lane] 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.
- Site
- Al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
- Date Found
- 2023
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Name only, Entertainment
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0057792
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