Sigla: Müller, D.H. 1889: 69, no. 17; Grimme 1937: 303; CLL 014; D 025  Script: Dadanitic

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Transliteration
1: {h}{ḏ}
2: l- ḏ–
3: ġbt/f
4: rḍy -h
5: w ----
6: [----]

Translation
1: {this}
2: to Ḏ–
3: ġbt and so may he
4: favour him
5: and ----
6: [----]

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT
Line 1. Müller, D.H.: db for {h}{ḏ}; Caskel followed by Farès-Drappeau: dʾ for {h}{ḏ}.
Line 3. Müller, D.H. followed by Grimme: rṭy rather than rḍy.
None of the authors consider more line. These can be seen on the photograph.

TRANSLATION
Line 4. Caskel: 'two life-spans to him'.

Commentary
The remains of a Dadanitic inscription on a fragment of a pillar. It was found by Julius Euting

Subjects
Deity Prayer Religion

Country: Saudi Arabia
Region: Al-Madīnah
Site: Oasis of al-ʿUlā
Latitude: 26.616667
Longitude: 37.916667
Present Location: Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire de Strasbourg (2014.1.214)
Find date: 1884
Field collector: J. Euting
Notes: Found in the former village of Al-ʿUlā. It was taken back to Germany by Julius Euting and given to the Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire de Strasbourg (Euting 1914: 245) where it remains.

References:
[CLL] Caskel, W. Lihyan und Lihyanisch. (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Forschung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Geisteswissenschaften, 4). Köln: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1954. Pages: 82–83

Euting, J. Tagbuch einer Reise in Inner-Arabien. 2. Leiden: Brill, 1914. Pages: 245

[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: 146

Grimme, H. Neubearbeitung der Wichtigeren Dedanischen und Liḥjanischen Inschriften. Le Muséon 50, 1937: 269-322. Pages: 303

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: 69 Plates: IV Number: 17

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