AH 147
Text Information
- Siglum
- AH 147
- Transliteration
-
ḏ / s²b{ṭ} / ḏ
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- Translation
-
ḏ {S²bṭ} ḏ
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- Language and Script
- Dadanitic
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- TEXT Abū l-Ḥasan: s²bḥ rather than s²b{ṭ}. TRANSLATION Abū l-Ḥasan considers that the second ḏ is the relative pronoun 'of the lineage of', and that the lineage name has been omitted by the author.
- Commentary
- We consider that the two ḏ, at the beginning and the end of the graffito, are apotropaic signs, which usually stand only at the beginning of an inscription and occasionally both at the beginning and the end of the inscription (Macdonald 2004: 509).
- Editio Princeps
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- 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 316 Plate 17
- Macdonald, M.C.A. Ancient North Arabian. Pages 488-533 in R.D. Woodard (ed.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
- Site
- The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Apotropaic sign, Name only
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0033182
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