Sigla: JSLih 069; Eut 825; HuIR no. 98; Müller, D.H. 1889, pl. VII; CLL 089; Jamme 1968: 106; JaL 092a; Al-Qudrah 1993: 38, no. 96; Scagliarini 1994: 290–293, no. 33; D 050  Script: Dadanitic

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Transliteration
1: ws¹qt
2: ʿmm ʾḏh
3: nwl/ʿl mg
4: -h

Translation
1: ws¹qt
2: ʿmm ʾḏh
3: nwl/ʿl mg
4: -h

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT
Line 1. Jaussen & Savignac followed by Farès-Drappeau: ws¹ḫt for ws¹qt; Jamme 1968: ws¹yt for ws¹qt; Jamme 1974: ws¹dt for ws¹qt.
Line 3. Jaussen & Savignac followed by Caskel and Al-Qudrah: nwm rather than nwl; Jamme followed by Scagliarini: ywm rather than nwl; Al-Qudrah: ʿlm [n] rather than ʿl mg; Farès-Drappeau: ʿl mn for ʿl mg.

TRANSLATION
Lines 1–4. Jaussen & Savignac: 'Was¹iḫat ʿAmāmaʾ ḏu Hanawām has written here'; Caskel: 'Was¹aqat son of ʿAmam has seen, while he slept deeply, the signs g h'; Jamme: 'Was¹ādat has accomplished his cutting when hi had lost his swift (female camel)'.
Lines 3–4. Scagliarini only translates this two lines: 'when he was on mgh'.
Farès-Drappeau does not translate this inscription.

DISCUSSION
Ullendorff 1955: 431.
Déroche 1987: 100, 103, 260.

Commentary
We are unable to offer a satisfactory interpretation of this inscription.
The inscription is erroneously registered under no. 67 in Jaussen & Savignac (1909-1920, ii, pl. LXXXIV).

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: Ǧabal al-Ḫuraybah: on the large cliff face, beside the door of a tomb
Associated Inscriptions: It is to the right of JSLih 070

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 Unpublished MA Thesis, Epigraphy Section, Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, Yarmouk University, Irbid. 1993.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: 38 Number: 96

[CLL] Caskel, W. Lihyan und Lihyanisch. (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Forschung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Geisteswissenschaften, 4). Köln: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1954. Pages: 122

Déroche, F. Recherches sur l'oasis de Dedan / al-Ula. Thèse de Doctorat: Études arabo-islamiques, Paris IV, 1987. [Unpublished], 1987. Pages: 100, 103, 260

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: VII

[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: 162 Plates: XIV

[HuIR ] Huber, C. Inscriptions recueillies dans l'Arabie centrale, 1878-1882. Bulletin de la Société de géographie 7th. series, 5, 1884: 289-303. Number: 98

Jamme, A. Minaean Inscriptions Published as Liḥyanite. [privately printed]. Washington, DC, 1968. Pages: 106

[Eut] Jamme, A. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe V. Washington, DC: [privately produced], 1974. Plates: 37C

[JaL] Jamme, A. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe VII. Washington, DC: [privately produced], 1974. Pages: 81 Plates: 21

[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: 417–419 Plates: LXXXVI, CVII

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: N/A Plates: VII

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: 290–293 Number: 33

Ullendorff, E. [Review of Caskel 1954 (CLL)]. Orientalia 24, 1955: 428-433. Pages: 431

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