U 097

Siglum
U 097
Alternative Sigla
AH 179/1
Transliteration
ʿbd<<>>mqḥ
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Translation
ʿbdmqḥ
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Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Abū l-Ḥasan considers this graffito and the U 098, as one text.
Commentary
The carver put a word-divider between ʿbd and mqḥ which must be a mistake since it is a single theophoric personal name.

Editio Princeps
Sima 1999: 28

Technique
Incised
Direction of Script
Horizontal line right to left

  • [AH] Abū ʾl-Ḥasan, Ḥ.ʿA.D. Qirāʾah li-kitābāt liḥyāniyyah min ǧabal ʿakmah bi-minṭaqat al-ʿulā. Al-Riyāḍ: Maktabat al-malik fahd al-waṭaniyyah, 1997. pp 345–346 Plate 20
  • [U] Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 28 Plate 23b, 24a
Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Name only
Old OCIANA ID
#0033134
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