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AH 171

Text Information

Siglum
AH 171
Transliteration
md ----{f}bh
Translation
Md ----{fbh}

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Abū l-Ḥasan: mdḥ b[n] bh rather than md----{f}bh.
Commentary
The first two letters of the graffito could be read as the female personal name Md, which is attested in U 069/2. For a commentary on this name, see Sima 1999: 71.

Provenance
Al-ʿUḏayb (Jabal ʿIkmah)
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Incised

Associated Inscriptions
It is below AH 172, to the right of U 113, to the left of AH 175 and above AH 164

  • 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 Plate 19
  • Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 71
Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Name only
Script
Dadanitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0033210
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