AH 100

Siglum
AH 100
Alternative Sigla
Sima 1999: 43–44
Transliteration
ry / bnt / zd
----ny / ʾẓ[l]t / bʿ-
d / nḫl -h / w s²ym
-h / b- bnʾl / ẓl-
l / b- khl[ / ]l- qm
w l- ---- f {r}ḍ {-h}
w s¹ʿd -h / w ʾḫrt -h
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Translation
By / son of / Ry daughter of Zd
----ny {performed} for the sake
of her palm trees and her
field at Bnʾl a ẓll-ceremony
at Khl for Qm
and for ---- and so {favour} {her}
and help her and her posterity
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Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 1. Abū l-Ḥasan: {g}ry rather than ry; Sima: ----ry rather than ry. Lines 1–2. Abū l-Ḥasan: zd{s²}ny for zd----ny; Sima: zd----nyn for zd----yn; Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭ[l]t for ʾẓ[l]t. Line 4. Abū l-Ḥasan: ṭll for ẓll. Line 6. Abū l-Ḥasan: l- ḏġ[bt] for l----. TRANSLATION Line 2. ʾ[ẓ]lt, Abū l-Ḥasan: '(she) offered; Sima: '(she) covered'. Lines 2–3. bʾd, Sima: 'in the direction of'. Line 3. s²ym, 'Abū l-Ḥasan: 'black camels'. Lines 4–5. ẓll, Sima: '[water-channels?]'. Line 5. b- khl, Abū l-Ḥasan: 'in the month Khl'; Sima: 'by her abilities'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 17, 20–22, for the place names Bnʾl and Khl.
Commentary
The text is carved in relief within a rectangle of smoothed rock, but the final letters of lines 1, 2, 6, and 7 run beyond the edge of this area. Line 2. The verb is not followed immediately by the common expression h- ẓll. This appears on line 4 and oddly is not determined. This is the only occurrence of the deity Qm in Dadanitic. Qm (Qawm) is a possible hypocoristic of the divine name Šayʿ ha-Qawm in Safaitic and Šayʿ al-Qawm in Nabataean, “the one who accompanies (or aids) the people”, the god who protects the caravans.

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Technique
In relief
Direction of Script
Horizontal line right to left

Associated Inscriptions
It is below AH 140 and AH 141, and to the left of AH 142

  • [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 255–258 Plate 13
  • Hidalgo-Chacón Díez, M. del C. Place names in the Dadanitic inscriptions of al-ʿUḏayb. Adumatu 30, 2014: 15-30
  • [U] Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 43–44
Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Agriculture, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Place-name, Religion, Women
Old OCIANA ID
#0033158
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