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
- Translation
- 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
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.
- Provenance
- Jabal Umm Daraǧ
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Incised
- Associated Inscriptions
- Three Minaic letters are carved in the bottom right-hand corner of the block
- 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
- Script
- Dadanitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0033211
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