Sigla: JSLih 064; Grimme 1929: 135; Winnett 1937: 17; CLL 012; JaL 85d; Déroche 1987: 92–93; Al-Qudrah 1993: 31, no. 72; Scagliarini 1994: 267–271, no. 28; D 067  Script: Dadanitic  Language: Dadanitic

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Transliteration
1: bʿls¹mn/ʾḥrm/h- qrt
2: mn/mh/trqh/mrʾt
3: l- bhny/hn- ʾfklt
4: ḏ

Translation
1: Bʿls¹mn consecrated the boulder
2: so that no woman can ascend it
3: for Bhny the priestess
4: ḏ

Apparatus Criticus
TRANSLATION
Line 1. Grimme 1929: 135: 'Baʿls¹min has made this rock-peak'.
Lines 1–2. Caskel followed by Al-Qudrah: '(he) forbade this woman to ascend the boulder'; Déroche; Bʿls¹mn placed the rock out-of-bounds to prevent a woman casting a spell against him'; Scagliarini: '(he) made the rock sacred territory so that no woman can climb it'; Farès-Drappeau: '(he) forbade the village to him whom his wife bewitches'.
Lines 1–3. Jaussen & Savignac: 'Baʿals¹amīn has vowed to forbid [access to] the village because he cursed a woman, to (or by) Bahāni Hawnʾafkalat'; Jamme: 'Baʿals¹amīn has blazed with anger against this boulder because had cursed it the wife of Labbhany, the priestess'; Lundberg: 'Bʿls¹mn protected the village because the woman of the palm tree, the priestess of ... cast a spell on it'.

DISCUSSION
Grimme 1937: 277.
Ryckmans, G. 1937: 328.
Macdonald 2004: 502.
Lundberg 2015: 134.
Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128–129 for Bʿls¹mn.

Commentary
Line 4. The letter ḏ is written on the left side of the line. It could be considered as an apotropaic symbol.

Subjects
Religion Women Deity Topographic features

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: Al-Ḫuraybah: in the wādī below the southern quarry

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 Unpublished MA Thesis, Epigraphy Section, Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, Yarmouk University, Irbid. 1993.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: 31 Number: 72

[CLL] Caskel, W. Lihyan und Lihyanisch. (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Forschung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Geisteswissenschaften, 4). Köln: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1954. Pages: 81–82

Déroche, F. Recherches sur l'oasis de Dedan / al-Ula. Thèse de Doctorat: Études arabo-islamiques, Paris IV, 1987. [Unpublished], 1987. Pages: 127–128

[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: 177–178 Plates: XX

Grimme, H. Neubearbeitung der Wichtigeren Dedanischen und Liḥjanischen Inschriften. Le Muséon 50, 1937: 269-322. Pages: 277

Grimme, H. Texte und Untersuchungen zur ṣafatenisch-arabischen Religion. Mit einer Einführung in die ṣafatenische Epigraphik. (Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des Altertums, 16/01/2012). [Reprint, 1970, Johnson, New York]. Paderborn: Schöningh, 1929. Pages: 135

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: 128–129

[JaL] Jamme, A. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe VII. Washington, DC: [privately produced], 1974. Pages: 73–74 Plates: 19

[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: 405–407 Plates: LXXXIV, 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: 502

Ryckmans, G. Le déchiffrement des inscriptions liḥyanites et thamoudénnes [Review of Winnett 1937 (WLT)]. Le Muséon 50, 1937: 323-337. Pages: 328

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: 267–271 Plates: XXVI Number: 28

Winnett, F.V. A Study of the Liḥyanite and Thamudic Inscriptions. (University of Toronto Studies - Oriental Series, 3). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1937. Pages: 17 Plates: II

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