Sigla: JSLih 276; Grimme 1937: 306; CLL 101; Drewes 1983: 427, no. 8; Al-Qudrah 1993; 31, no. 75; Scagliarini 1994: 338–339, no. 45; D 075  Script: Dadanitic

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Transliteration
1: zdlh/bn/klb/ḏ- ʿmrtʿ/f ʿrr/ḏġbt/ʿrr/ʾ- s¹fr/ḏh

Translation
1: Zdlh son of Klb of the lineage of ʿmrtʿ and so Ḏġbt dishonour the dishonourer of this inscription

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT
Grimme followed by Al-Qudrah: h- s¹fr rather than ʾs¹fr'; Caskel does not read klb.

TRANSLATION
ʿrr, Jaussen & Savignac followed by Caskel: personal name; ʾs¹fr, Jaussen & Savignac followed by Caskel: '(he) has wrote'.

DISCUSSION
Ryckmans, G. 1937: 328.
Macdonald 2000: 52-53 regards this inscription as Dadano-Arabic.
Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.

Commentary
The form ʾ- s¹fr may be the Arabic definite article ʾl-, with the assimilation of the /l/ before a following sibilant, or it may be a definite article ʾ-, as in AH 119, 138. Compare the occasional ʾ- definite article in Safaitic, (Al-Jallad 2015: 16).
The group name ʿmrtʿ occurs many times in the Minaic and Dadanitic inscriptions from al-ʿUlā, see for example JSMin 11/6, 69, 86, 94, etc. and JSLih 245, 281, 288, U 72, U 090, AHUD 1, Müller, D.H. 1889: 83-84, no. 57.

Subjects
Deity Lineage Religion Curse

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: Talʿat al-Ḥammād: on the great rock-face, south of the sphinxes

References:
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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 Unpublished MA Thesis, Epigraphy Section, Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, Yarmouk University, Irbid. 1993.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: 75

[CLL] Caskel, W. Lihyan und Lihyanisch. (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Forschung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Geisteswissenschaften, 4). Köln: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1954. Pages: 127

Drewes, A.J. Liḥyanitische Inscripties. Pages 424-429 in K.R. Veenhof (ed.), Schrijvend Verleden. Documenten uit het Oude Nabije Oosten vertaald en toegelicht. Leiden: Ex Oriente Lux / Zutphen: Terra, 1983. Pages: 427 Number: 8

[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: 180–181 Plates: XXII

Grimme, H. Neubearbeitung der Wichtigeren Dedanischen und Liḥjanischen Inschriften. Le Muséon 50, 1937: 269-322. Pages: 306

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

[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: 505–506 Plates: XCII, CXXXV

Macdonald, M.C.A. Reflections on the linguistic map of pre-Islamic Arabia. Arabian archaeology and epigraphy 11, 2000: 28-79. [Reprinted with the same pagination, plus addenda and corrigenda, as Article III in Macdonald, M.C.A., Literacy and Identity in Pre-Islamic Arabia. (Variorum Collected Studies, 906). Farnham: Ashgate, 2009.] Pages: 52–53

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: 338–339 Number: 45

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