Sigla: JSLih 075; Eut 835; Doughty 1884, pl. XV, f. 26–27; Halévy 1884: 18-19, no. 5b; Müller, D.H. 1889: 73–74, no. 25/1-7; Grimme 1937: 314; CLL 072; JaL 102g; Déroche 1987: 124–126; Al-Qudrah 1993: 35, no. 89; D 056  Script: Dadanitic

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Transliteration
1: ʿqrb/bn/mrʾlh/h- ṣ–
2: nʿ/ḏ- ġlḫ/ʾṯʿ/ʾ–
3: bʾlf/b- ḥqwy/k–
4: fr/f rḍ -h/w s¹ʿd -h/w
5: ʾḫrt -h/s¹nt/ḫms¹
6: l- hnʾs¹/bn/tlmy
7: mlk/lḥyn

Translation
1: ʿqrb son of Mrʾlh the
2: artisan of the lineage of Ġlḫ represented (carved) ʾ–
3: bʾlf on two sides of the
4: tomb and so favour him and help him and
5: his posterity in the year five
6: of Hnʾs¹ son of Tlmy
7: king of Lḥyn

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT
Line 2. Halévy does not read the end of this line; Jamme: ġlṭ for ġlḫ.
Line 3. Halévy does not read this line.
Line 4: Halévy followed by Müller, D.H., Jaussen & Savignac and Grimme: rṭ -h for rḍ -h.
Lines 5–7. Halévy does not read these lines.
Müller, D.H. reads two more lines. These belong to JSLih 076.

TRANSLATION
Line 2. ʾṯʿ: Grimme: '(he) has helped'; Jamme: '(he) took service with'; Déroche: 'he made rich offering's; Al-Qudrah: '(he) has carved'; Farès-Drappeau does not translate this word.
Line 4. rḍ -h, Caskel: 'two life-spans'.
Lines 4–5. s¹ʿd -h w ʾḫrt -h, Müller, D.H. followed by Jaussen & Savignac: 'his happiness and his future'; Jamme: 'May he favour him and guide him!';
Line 5. ʾḫrt -h, Farès-Drappeau: 'and (he) guided him'.

DISCUSSION
Jamme 1971: 20–21.
Déroche 1987: 106, 207.
Macdonald 2004: 520, 522.

Commentary
Line 2. Forʾṯʿ (yṯʿ = yfʿ) see Müller, Walter W. 1979: 23–29. See also Sabaic yfʿ (Beeston et al. 1982: 168).
The right side of the rock face is broken, the beginning of lines 1–4 cannot be read clearly on the photograph. The reading of these lines is based on the facsimile in Jaussen & Savignac (1909-1920, ii, pl. CIX).

Subjects
Date (s1nt) Genealogy Prayer Religion Funerary Lineage Structure Historical

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 Remains: It is below JSLih 074, to the left of JSLih 073 and above JSLih 076

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: 35 Number: 89

Beeston, A.F.L., Ghul, M.A., Müller, W.W. & Ryckmans, J. Sabaic Dictionary (English-French-Arabic). Publication of the University of Sanaa, YAR. Louvain-la-Neuve: Peeters / Beyrouth: Librairie du Liban, 1982. Pages: 168

[CLL] Caskel, W. Lihyan und Lihyanisch. (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Forschung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Geisteswissenschaften, 4). Köln: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1954. Pages: 110

Déroche, F. Recherches sur l'oasis de Dedan / al-Ula. Thèse de Doctorat: Études arabo-islamiques, Paris IV, 1987. [Unpublished], 1987. Pages: 106, 124–126, 207

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: 168 Plates: XVI

Grimme, H. Neubearbeitung der Wichtigeren Dedanischen und Liḥjanischen Inschriften. Le Muséon 50, 1937: 269-322. Pages: 314

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

Jamme, A. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe I. Washington, DC: [privately produced], 1971. Pages: 20–21

[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: 84–85 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: 438–439 Plates: LXXXVII, LXXXVIIbis, CIX

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, 522

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: 73–74 Plates: IV Number: 25/1-7

Müller, W.W. Abyaṯaʿ und andere mit yṯʿ gebildete Namen im Frühnordarabischen und Altsüdarabischen. Die Welt des Orients 10, 1979: 23-29.

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