AH 202

Text Information

Siglum
AH 202
Transliteration
gd / bn / ṣbḥ / ʾgw / h- ẓll / b- {m}ṣ- d / hm -ḏ / tr{k}---- / f rḍ -h w ʾḫrt -h / s¹nt / ʾrbʿn / w ʾ<ḥ>d- y / hnʾs¹ / mlk / lḥyn
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Translation
By / son of / Gd son of Ṣbḥ organized the ẓll-ceremony at the {top of the [red] mountain} in accordance with what {trk} ---- and so favour him and his posterity. In the year forty-one of Hnʾs¹ king of Lḥyn
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Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 1: Abū l-Ḥasan: md for gd and Abū l-Ḥasan: h- ṭll rather than h- ẓll. Line 2. Abū l-Ḥasan: trk----t rather than tr{k}----. TRANSLATION Line 1. ʾgw, Abū l-Ḥasan: '(he) offered'. Line 2. hm -ḏ trk, Abū l-Ḥasan: 'since he left'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2009: 613.
Commentary
Line 4. Author's mistake: ʾḫdy rather than ʾḥdy. The inscription is badly incised. Some letters in line 3 cannot be read clearly. On the right side of line 4 are incised three Minaic letters ʾ l n.

Editio Princeps
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Technique
Incised
Direction of Script
Horizontal line right to left

Associated Inscriptions
Three Minaic letters are carved in the bottom right-hand corner of the block

  • [AH] Abū ʾl-Ḥasan, Ḥ.ʿA.D. Nuqūš liḥyānīyah min minṭaqat al-ʿulā. (Dirāsah taḥlīliyyah muqāranah). al-Riyāḍ: Wizārat al-maʿārif, 2002. pp 50–52
  • Hidalgo-Chacón Díez, M. del C. [Review of: Abū ʾl-Ḥasan, Ḥ.ʿA.D., Nuqūš liḥyānīya min minṭaqat al-῾Ulā: dirāsa taḥlīlīya muqārana. Al-Riyāḍ: Wizārat al-ma῾ārif wakālat al-wizāra li-l-āṯār wa-ʾl-matāḥif, 1423 h./2002 m]. Journal of Semitic Studies 54, 2009: 611–613
Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Date (s¹nt), Genealogy, Historical, Isolated Prayer, Religion, Topographic features
Old OCIANA ID
#0033211
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