OCIANA
Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

AH 172

Text Information

Siglum
AH 172
Transliteration
ḥrb/ḏ s¹yl
Translation
Ḥrb of the lineage of S¹yl

Interpretation

Commentary
The letters ḥ and ḏ are Minaic, and the rest of the letters could be either Minaic and Dadanitic. Because of the mix of the letters is difficult to consider this graffito as Dadanitic.

Provenance
Al-ʿUḏayb (Jabal ʿIkmah)
Original Reading Credit
Abū l-Ḥasan 1997: 340-341
Original Translation Credit
Abū l-Ḥasan 1997: 340-341

Technique
Incised

Associated Inscriptions
It is above AH 171

  • 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 340–341 Plate 19
Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Lineage
Script
Ancient South Arabian
Old OCIANA ID
#0033199
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