Sigla: JSLih 055; HuIR no. 92; Doughty 1884, pl. XVI, f. 30/1; Müller, D.H. 1889: 58–59, no. 1; Hub 393, 1;Grimme 1937: 299; CLL 084; Al-Qudrah 1993: 43, no. 119; Scagliarini 1994: 232–237, no. 20; D 014 Script: Dadanitic
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1: ----y wkl/h{ġ}s¹n/ʾfkl/h- ktby ----
2: ----h/bn/hrmh/ʾḏh/ḥrb -hm ----
3: ----tlh/b- mṯb/b- {ṭ}ʿn/ṣd/ḏ----
Translation
1: ---y mandatory of {Hġs¹n} priest of H- ktby----
2: ----h son of Hrmh when [he] waged war on them ----
3: ----tlh in Mṯb by {the departure} of Ṣd ḏ----
Apparatus Criticus
TEXT
Line 1. Müller, D.H.: wʾl for wkl and ʾfʿh for ʾfkl; Grimme: ġs¹n rather than h- ġs¹n; Caskel: ḍkl rather than wkl.
Line 2. Grimme: ----l for ----h.
Line 3. Müller, D.H. followed by Jaussen & Savignac, and Grimme: b- ḍʿn for b- {ṭ}ʿn.
TRANSLATION
Line 1. wkl, Farès-Drappeau: 'he load'; wkl ġs¹n, Grimme: 'the energetic attendant'; ʾfkl, Caskel: 'Afkal'; h- ktby, Müller, D.H. followed by Jaussen & Savignac: 'the writer'.
Line 3. Müller, D.H.: 'in the cistern Baḍʿān (?)'. Jaussen & Savignac: 'he perished in the combat of Bāḍiʿan Ṣayd of ----'; Grimme: 'he defeated a number of rebels in the attack'; Caskel: 'when he struck him with a good spear'; Al-Qudrah: 'in the place with calumniation against ----'.
DISCUSSION
Farès-Drappeau 1999: 205.
Macdonald 2004: 520.
Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 130, for hktby.
Commentary
The inscription is broken away on the left and the right side.
For the word ṭʿn compare AH 197/8, see commentary by Hidalgo-Chacón Díez (2009: 52) and JSLih 59/2,4.
Subjects
Genealogy
Religion
Warfare
Country: Saudi Arabia
Region: Al-Madīnah
Site: Oasis of al-ʿUlā
Latitude: 26.616667
Longitude: 37.916667
Present Location: In situ
Find date: 1909–1910
Field collector: Jaussen & Savignac
Survey: Mission archéologique en Arabie
Notes: Former village of Al-ʿUlā: reused in buildings
References:
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[CLL] Caskel, W. Lihyan und Lihyanisch. (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Forschung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Geisteswissenschaften, 4). Köln: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1954. Pages: 118–119
Doughty, C.M. Documents épigraphiques recueillis dans le nord de l'Arabie. Notices et extraits des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Nationale et autres bibliothèques 29:1, 1884: 1–64, pls I–LVII. Plates: pl. XVI, f. 30/1
[D] Farès-Drappeau, S. Dédan et Liḥyān. Histoire des Arabes aux confins des pouvoirs perse et hellénistique (IVe–IIe s. avant l'ère chrétienne). (Travaux de la maison de l'Orient, 42). Lyon: Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée — Jean Pouilloux, 2005. Pages: 139–140 Plates: VII
Farès-Drappeau, S. La divinité h-KTBY/hn-ʾKTB en Arabie du nord-ouest et en Jordanie du sud. Topoi 9, 1999: 201-208. Pages: 205
Grimme, H. Neubearbeitung der Wichtigeren Dedanischen und Liḥjanischen Inschriften. Le Muséon 50, 1937: 269-322. Pages: 299
Hidalgo-Chacón Díez, M. del C. Neuarbeitung der dadanischen Inschrift Abū l-Ḥasan 197. New Treatment of the Dadanitic Insdription Abū l-Ḥasan 197. Aula Orientalis 27, 2009: 43-56 Pages: 52
Hidalgo-Chacón Díez. M. del C. The divine names at Dadan: a philological approach. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 46, 2016: 125–136 Pages: 130
[HuIR] Huber, C. Inscriptions recueillies dans l'Arabie centrale, 1878-1882. Bulletin de la Société de géographie 7th. series, 5, 1884: 289-303. Number: 92
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Jamme, A. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe V. Washington, DC: [privately produced], 1974. Pages: 123, note 25
[JSLih] 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. Volume: II Pages: 394–395 Plates: LXXXII, CV
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. Pages: 520
Müller, D.H. Epigraphische Denkmäler aus Arabien. (nach Abklatschen und Copien des Herrn Professor Dr. Julius Euting in Strassburg). Borgelegt in der Sitzung am 9. Mai 1888. (Denkschriften der (kaiserlichen) Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 37.2). Wien: Tempsky, 1889. Pages: 58–59 Plates: III Number: 1
Scagliarini, F. Le iscrizioni liḥyānitiche dell'Oasi di al-ʿUlā. Dottorato di ricerca in semitistica: linguistica semitica, Universita' degli studi di Firenze, anni accademici 1992-1994 . [unpublished thesis]. 1994. Pages: 205, 232–237 Number: 20
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