AH 100
Text Information
- 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
- Translation
- 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
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.
- Provenance
- Al-ʿUḏayb (Jabal ʿIkmah)
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- In relief
- Associated Inscriptions
- It is below AH 140 and AH 141, and to the left of AH 142
- 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
- Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 43–44
- Hidalgo-Chacón Díez, M. del C. Place names in the Dadanitic inscriptions of al-ʿUḏayb. Adumatu 30, 2014: 15-30
- Site
- The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Agriculture, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Place-name, Religion, Women
- Script
- Dadanitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0033158
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