The ẓll of ancient Dadān: Ritual and documentary practice

IF 0.7 4区 历史学 0 ARCHAEOLOGY
Fokelien Kootstra
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In and around the site of ancient Dadān (modern-day al-ʿUlā), located in the Northwest of the Arabian Peninsula, many inscriptions are found in the local North Arabian script variety called Dadanitic (6th–1st centuries BC). Many of the Dadanitic inscriptions mention the ẓll ceremony for the main local deity Ḏūġābat, both unique to Dadān. While the ẓll inscriptions are the most common type of monumental inscriptions in the Dadanitic script, their function is still little understood. Previous interpretations of the ẓll inscriptions have primarily relied on the etymology of the root ẓll, ‘to cover’ or ‘shade’ (compare Arabic ẓulal ‘shade’). This article takes a broader approach to the inscriptions and considers their formulaic structure, phrasing, the distribution of attested personal names in them, and the use of the root in other genres and corpora to arrive at a new interpretation of the ritual, suggesting that the ẓll inscriptions are better understood as documenting land leases. In this context the root ẒLL should be understood as ‘to write, to put down in writing; to record’.

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古代Dadān的ẓll:仪式与文献实践
在位于阿拉伯半岛西北部的古代Dadān(现代al- - - al- - - Ulā)遗址及其周围,发现了许多铭文,这些铭文是用当地的北阿拉伯文字写成的,称为达达尼亚文(公元前6 - 1世纪)。许多达达主义铭文都提到了为当地主要神灵Ḏūġābat举行的ẓll仪式,这两种仪式都是Dadān独有的。虽然ẓll铭文是达达主义文字中最常见的纪念性铭文类型,但它们的功能仍然很少被理解。先前对ẓll铭文的解释主要依赖于词根ẓll的词源,“覆盖”或“阴影”(比较阿拉伯语ẓulal“阴影”)。本文采用了更广泛的方法来研究这些铭文,并考虑了它们的公式化结构、措辞、其中已证实的人名的分布,以及其他体词和语料库中词根的使用,从而得出了对仪式的新解释,这表明ẓll铭文可以更好地理解为记录土地租赁。在这种情况下,词根ẒLL应该被理解为“写,写下来;记录”。
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期刊介绍: In recent years the Arabian peninsula has emerged as one of the major new frontiers of archaeological research in the Old World. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy is a forum for the publication of studies in the archaeology, epigraphy, numismatics, and early history of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. Both original articles and short communications in English, French, and German are published, ranging in time from prehistory to the Islamic era.
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