Sigla: JSLih 083; Grimme 1937: 302; CLL 030; Ph 438; W.Dad 09; JaL 144; Al-Qudrah 1993: 34, no. 85; D 064  Script: Dadanitic

[----]
/ ----
----
/ ----
// –
-/ -/ –
-///
29/- /

Transliteration
0: [----]
1: s²/w ----
2: gs²ms¹ ----
3: mn/hḏh ----
4: ʾbhm/ḫrḥḏġbt/f r–
5: ḍy -hm/w ʾḫrt -hm/w s¹ʿ–
6: d -hm/s¹nt/ʿs²rn/w ts¹ʿ
7: 29/b- rʾy/gltqs¹

Translation
0: [----]
1: s² and ----
2: Gs¹ms¹ ----
3: from this ----
4: ʾbhm Ḫrḥḏġbt and so may (the deity)
5: favour them and their posterity and may he
6: help them in the year twenty-nine
7: 29 in the government of Mltqs¹

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT
The lines number below refer to the OCIANA reading not those of Grimme, Winnett & Reed, Jamme and Al-Qudrah.

Line 1. Jaussen & Savignac followed by Winnett & Reed: w k---- rather than w----; van den Branden: w k(l----) rather than w; Caskel: [w ʿ] at the end of this line; Jamme: w ʾbd[----] for w----; Al-Qudrah: s¹ wh ---- [wʿ] rather than s² w----.
Line 2. Jaussen & Savignac followed by Caskel, van den Branden, Winnett & Reed and Al-Qudrah: ms² ms¹ for gs²ms¹; Grimme ʿms²ms¹ for gs²ms¹; Farès-Drappeau: ms² s² for gs²ms¹; Grimme: [hdqw h ṣl]; Caskel followed by van den Branden and Al-Qudrah: [ḥyw hdqw h ṣl]; Winnett & Reed: h ṣl at the end of this line.
Line 3. Jaussen & Savignac: h---- rather than hḏh; Grimme: [ḏnḏr l]ʿgl ----n; Caskel: [l] ʿglbn; van den Branden: ḏn[ḏr lʿglbn]; Winnett & Reed: h ḏ[h]n ----; Jamme: n [nḏr l wgḫbn]; Al-Qudrah: [ḏn]ḏ[r] lʿglbn at the end of this line.
Line 4. Jamme: ḫr l ḏġbt rather than ḫrḥḏġbt.
Line 5: Jaussen & Savignac followed by Grimme: rṭy -hm rather than rḍy -hm.
Line 7: Jaussen & Savignac: mltqs¹ for gltqs¹.

TRANSLATION
Line 4. ʾbhm, Grimme followed by Caskel, van den Branden and Al-Qudrah: 'their father'; Winnett & Reed: 'their (divine) father'; Jamme: 'their father, by free choice to Ḏġbt - may he'.
Lines 4–5. f rḍy -hm w ʾḫrt -hm w s¹ʿd -hm, Caskel followed by Al-Qudrah: 'two life spans, descendants and fortune for them'; w ʾḫrt -hm w s¹ʿd -hm, Jaussen & Savignac: 'for their future and their happiness'; w ʾḫrt -hm; van den Branden followed by Winnett & Reed, Jamme and Farès-Drappeau: 'he guided them'.
Line 5. Winnett & Reed: 'favour them and guide them and bless'.
Line 8. Grimme: '– 29 – in the government of the (king) Gallatqaus¹'; Winnett & Reed: 'in the reign of GLT-Qaus¹'.

DISCUSSION
Jamme 1968: 134.
Jamme 1971: 21.
Déroche 1987: 179, 197, 205.
Macdonald 2004: 522.
Scagliarini 2007: 254, 255.

Commentary
The first 4 lines are read from the facsimile Jaussen & Savignac (1909-1920, ii, pl. CXII).

Subjects
Date (s1nt) Genealogy Prayer Religion

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. Found at the entry to the ancient sanctuary, not far from the statues and the huge basin. On a basis intended for statues

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: 34 Number: 85

[CLL] Caskel, W. Lihyan und Lihyanisch. (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Forschung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Geisteswissenschaften, 4). Köln: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1954. Pages: 91

Déroche, F. Recherches sur l'oasis de Dedan / al-Ula. Thèse de Doctorat: Études arabo-islamiques, Paris IV, 1987. [Unpublished], 1987. Pages: 179, 197, 205

[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: 174 Plates: XIX

Grimme, H. Neubearbeitung der Wichtigeren Dedanischen und Liḥjanischen Inschriften. Le Muséon 50, 1937: 269-322. Pages: 302

Jamme, A. Minaean Inscriptions Published as Liḥyanite. [privately printed]. Washington, DC, 1968. Pages: 134

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

[JaL] Jamme, A. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe VII. Washington, DC: [privately produced], 1974. Pages: 108–109 Plates: 27

[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: 454–455 Plates: LXXXV, CXII

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: 522

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

[Ph] Van den Branden, A. Nouveaux textes liḥyanites de Philby-Bogue. Al-Machriq 54, 1960: 92-104. Pages: 99–102 Number: 21

[W.Dad] Winnett, F.V. & Reed, W.L. Ancient Records from North Arabia. with contributions by J.T. Milik and J. Starcky. (Near and Middle East Series, 6). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1970. Pages: 125–127 Plates: 24, 25 Number: 9

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