Sigla: JSLih 074; Eut 833a; Doughty 1884, pl. XV, f. 26–27; Halévy 1884: 18–19, no. 5a; Müller, D.H. 1889: 72–73, no. 24; Grimme 1937: 320; CLL 083; JaL 102d; Al-Qudrah 1993: 28, no. 56; Scagliarini 1994: 314–315, no. 37; D 055  Script: Dadanitic

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Transliteration
1: dʿṯh/h- ṣnʿ/nḥt/h- ṣlm

Translation
1: Dʿṯh, the artisan, hewed the statue

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT
Müller, D.H. reads the word mṣ at the end. This does appear in the photograph. Jamme: dwṯh for dʿṯh.

TRANSLATION
nḥt h- ṣlm, Grimme: '(he) has carved the image'; Jamme: '(he) has cut the engraving'.

DISCUSSION
Scagliarini 2007: 254.

Commentary
The word ṣnʿ appears also in the inscriptions JSLih 035/1, JSLih 075/1-2 and AH 220/7.

Subjects
Name only

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 a large vertical cliff face, several hundred metres east of the ruins of Al-Ḫuraybah
Associated Inscriptions: It is below JSLih 074bis and above JSLih 075

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 Unpublished MA Thesis, Epigraphy Section, Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, Yarmouk University, Irbid. 1993.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: 28 Number: 56

[CLL] Caskel, W. Lihyan und Lihyanisch. (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Forschung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Geisteswissenschaften, 4). Köln: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1954. Pages: 118

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: XV, f. 26-27

[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: 167–168 Plates: XVI

Grimme, H. Neubearbeitung der Wichtigeren Dedanischen und Liḥjanischen Inschriften. Le Muséon 50, 1937: 269-322. Pages: 320

Halévy, J. Découvertes épigraphiques en Arabie. Revue des études juives 9, 1884: 1-20. Pages: 18–19 Number: 5a

[Eut] Jamme, A. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe V. Washington, DC: [privately produced], 1974. Plates: 38C

[JaL] Jamme, A. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe VII. Washington, DC: [privately produced], 1974. Pages: 84 Plates: 22

[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: 437–438 Plates: LXXXVII, LXXXVIIbis, CIX

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: 72–73 Plates: IV Number: 24

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: 314–315 Plates: XXXI Number: 37

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

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