Sigla: JSLih 037; Lidzbarski 1915: 217; CLL 018; Al-Qudrah 1993: 33, no. 81; Scagliarini 1994: 148–154, no. 3; Farès-Drappeau 1999: 204; D 044; Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2017  Script: Dadanitic

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Transliteration
1: ----{t}----
2: h- mḥ–
3: r w l-
4: {h}nʾktb/f
5: rḍy -hmy
6: ----

Translation
1: ----{t}----
2: the ritual-mḥr
3: (incense-offering) and for
4: {Hnʾktb} and so
5: may he favour them
6: ----

Apparatus Criticus
The lines number below refer to the OCIANA reading not those of Jaussen and Savignac.

TEXT
Line 5. Jaussen & Savignac followed by Lidzbarski: rṭy for rḍy.

TRANSLATION
Previous lines. Caskel restores: '[N.b.N. and N. b. N. offered the pier]'; Al-Qudrah: [(he) offered the blood sacrifice]'.
Lines 2–3. hmḥr, Jaussen & Savignac followed by Caskel and Al-Qudrah: personal name Ha-Maḥīr; mḥr, Scagliarini: 'compassion, mercy'; Farès-Drappeau does not translate this word.
Line 5. Caskel: 'the two life-spans for them'; Farès-Drappeau 1999: 'he has been satisfied of them both'; Farès-Drappeau 2005: 'he has been satisfied of him'.

DISCUSSION
Jamme 1968: 133: 'it is a pedestal of red granit, composed of a square base and an octogonal shaft; total height: from 22.5 to 23.5 cm.; contant thickness: 32.5 cm.; height of the front: 13 and 11.5 cm. (left and right sides of the shaft) and 6, 9, 9.5 and 4 cm. (left side, perpendicularly to the left and right sides of the shaft, and right side of the base)'.
Farès-Drappeau 1999: 204.
Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 130, for the divine name {H}nʾktb.
Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2017, for mḥr.

Commentary
The inscription is carved on a sandstone stone, which seems to be a fragment of the bottom of a votive stele or from a small altar.
The fact that nothing is missing on the left and right side of lines 1 and 2 shows that the stone had its present shape at the time the text was incised.

Subjects
Deity 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: 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 Unpublished MA Thesis, Epigraphy Section, Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, Yarmouk University, Irbid. 1993.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: 81

[CLL] Caskel, W. Lihyan und Lihyanisch. (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Forschung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Geisteswissenschaften, 4). Köln: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1954. Pages: 84–85

[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: 158 Plates: XII

Farès-Drappeau, S. La divinité h-KTBY/hn-ʾKTB en Arabie du nord-ouest et en Jordanie du sud. Topoi 9, 1999: 201-208. Pages: 204

Hidalgo-Chacón Díez, M. del C. Remarks on Dadanitic mḥr. With an addendum of the word hʾ in AH 288. Journal of Semitic Studies 62, 2017: 59–68.

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: 130

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: 366–367 Plates: LXXIX

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

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

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: 148–154 Number: 3

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