Sigla: JSLih 063; Grimme 1937: 300; CLL 085; Déroche 1987: 119-120; Al-Qudrah 1993: 50, no. 151; Scagliarini 1994: 263–267, no. 27; D 021  Script: Dadanitic

----///----/----
----//{}- {}/- [] ----
----////{}{}/ ----
---- -/ -/// ----
[----]

Transliteration
1: ----ḏ/whblh/bn/zd----t/s¹b----
2: ----by/ʾdq/{l}- ḏġ{b}t/hn- ʾṣl[m] ----
3: ----/lm/ʿly/rtm/{q}{d}s¹t/w ṣlm----
4: ----ḫrt -h/w s¹ʿd -h/s¹nt/ʿs²rn/w t----
5: [----]

Translation
1: ----ḏ Whblh son of Zd----t S¹ʾ
2: ----by offered {for} {Ḏġbt} the [statues]
3: ---- lm for Rtm {sacred offerings} and statue ----
4: ---- his {posterity} and help him in the year twenty and ----
5: [----]

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT
Line 1. Grimme followed by Caskel and Al-Qudrah: ḏb---- for s¹b----; Jaussen & Savignac followed by Caskel, Al-Qudra and Farès-Drappeau: zd[mn] for zd----.
Line 2. Caskel followed by Al-Qudrah: ----ḍy rather than ----by.
Line 3. Grimme: [t]; Jaussen & Savignac followed by Caskel, Déroche, Al-Qudrah and Scagliarini: ḫ at the beginning of this line; Grimme followed by Caskel, Déroche, Al-Qudrah and Scagliarini: rtg for rtm; Grimme: [n f rṭy -h w ʾ] at the end of the line.
Line 4. Jaussen & Savignac followed by Grimme, Déroche, Al-Qudrah, Scagliarini and Farès-Drappeau: w t[s¹ʿ] for w t----; Caskel: w ts¹ rather than w t----.

TRANSLATION
Line 2. hn- ʾṣl[m], Jaussen & Savignac: 'Hāniʾ Ṣālam (Ṣāleḥ)'; Grimme: 'Hāniʾṣalam'; Caskel: 'pedestal'.
Line 3. ʿly rtm, Jaussen & Savignac: 'ʿAly Ratam'; Farès-Drappeau does not translate this line.
Line 4. s¹ʿd -h, Caskel: 'his fortune'; Farès-Drappeau: 'he has guided him'.

DISCUSSION
Déroche 1987: 238.
Scagliarini 2007: 254, 255.
Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.

Commentary
The reading is based on the copy.

Subjects
Deity Religion Prayer

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:
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 Unpublished MA Thesis, Epigraphy Section, Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, Yarmouk University, Irbid. 1993. Pages: 50 Number: 151

[CLL] Caskel, W. Lihyan und Lihyanisch. (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Forschung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Geisteswissenschaften, 4). Köln: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1954. Pages: 119

Déroche, F. Recherches sur l'oasis de Dedan / al-Ula. Thèse de Doctorat: Études arabo-islamiques, Paris IV, 1987. [Unpublished], 1987. Pages: 119–120, 238

[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: 144 Plates: IX

Grimme, H. Neubearbeitung der Wichtigeren Dedanischen und Liḥjanischen Inschriften. Le Muséon 50, 1937: 269-322. Pages: 300

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: 128

[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: 403–405 Plates: LXXXIII, CVII

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: 505

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: 263–267 Plates: XXV Number: 27

Scagliarini, F. The word ṣlm / ṣnm and some words for "statue, idol" in Arabian and other Semitic languages. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 37, 2007: 253-262. Pages: 254, 255

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