Sigla: JSLih 036; Lidzbarski 1915: 216–217; Grimme 1937: 303; CLL 025; Al-Qudrah 1993: 33, no. 083; Scagliarini 1994: 142–148, no. 2; D 043  Script: Dadanitic

---- // ----
---- {}/ -/{}----

Transliteration
1: ---- bn/bʿl/ntbʿl ----
2: ---- {ʿ}zy/ f rḍt -h/{h}----

Translation
1: ---- son of Bʿl Ntbʿl ----
2: ----{ʿzy} and so may she favour him {h}----

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT
Line 2. Lidzbarski: fḏy for [ʿ]zy; Jaussen & Savignac: fzʿ for [ʿ]zy; Jaussen & Savignac followed by Lidzbarski and Grimme: rṭt for rḍt; Farès-Drappeau: (hn)ʿzy at the beginning of this line and w rather than h at the end of this line.

TRANSLATION
Line 1. Al-Qudrah: '---- son of Bʿl Ntn [offered the blood sacrifice to god]'.
Line 2. Caskel: 'one live-span,.... for him'.

DISCUSSION
Jamme 1968: 133.

Commentary
The inscription is carved on a sandstone slab and is broken on both the left and right sides.

Line 2. The feminine form of the verb indicates that the deity is female.

Subjects
Genealogy Prayer Religion

Country: Saudi Arabia
Region: Al-Madīnah
Site: Oasis of al-ʿUlā
Latitude: 26.616667
Longitude: 37.916667
Present Location: In situ (7658)
Find date: 1909–1910
Field collector: Jaussen & Savignac
Survey: Mission archéologique en Arabie
Notes: The inscription was found by a Turkish official in Al-Ḫuraybah

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 Unpublished MA Thesis, Epigraphy Section, Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, Yarmouk University, Irbid. 1993.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: 33 Number: 83

[CLL] Caskel, W. Lihyan und Lihyanisch. (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Forschung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Geisteswissenschaften, 4). Köln: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1954. Pages: 88

[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: 157–158

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

Jamme, A. Minaean Inscriptions Published as Liḥyanite. [privately printed]. Washington, DC, 1968. Pages: 133

[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: 365–366 Plates: LXXIX

Lidzbarski, M. Ephemeris für semitische Epigraphik. (3 volumes). Giessen: Ricker &Töpelmann, 1902-1915. Volume: III Pages: 216–217

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: 142–148 Plates: II Number: 2

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