AH 209

Siglum: AH 209
Alternative Sigla: Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2017
Transliteration: ---- [b]n / ḥ-
---- mʾbh
bnt / l-
ḥy / qr-
bw / h-
mḥrw
l- ḏġ-
bt / f
rḍy -h-
my / w
ʾḫrt -h-
my / ḏ
OCIANA
Translation: ---- {son of} Ḥ-
----mʾbh
daughter of L-
ḥy dedi-
cated the
incense altar
to Ḏġ-
bt and so
may he favour
them both and
both their posterity Ḏ

OCIANA
Language and Script: Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TEXT Line 1. Abū l-Ḥasan: ----n rather than ---- [b]n. TRANSLATION Line 6. mḥrw, Abū l-Ḥasan: 'shell'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2017, for mḥrw.
Commentary: Since the personal pronouns in lines 7–10 are in the dual, the two broken lines at the beginning of the inscription must have contained two names, probably one male (if our restoration of [b]n is correct) and one female. In addition, the fact that nothing is missing on the left side of lines 3-10 allows us to surmise that this part of the stone had its present shape at the time the text was incised. Indeed, although, unfortunately, no photographs have been published of the top of the "pillar" on which the inscription has been incised, it seems highly likely that it was an incense altar and this would then provide the meaning of the word mḥrw (see the discussion in Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2017), that is an "incense altar" rather than "incense-rituals", as suggested in Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2017. Line 10. The isolated letter ḏ at the end of the text is probably an apotropaic sign (see Macdonald 2004: 509).

Associated Signs: ḏ at the end of the text
Associated Remains: The text is incised on a chamfered pillar which may have been an incense altar.

[AH] Abū ʾl-Ḥasan, Ḥ.ʿA.D. Nuqūš liḥyānīyah min minṭaqat al-ʿulā. (Dirāsah taḥlīliyyah muqāranah). al-Riyāḍ: Wizārat al-maʿārif, 2002. pp 67–70
Hidalgo-Chacón Díez, M. del C. Remarks on Dadanitic mḥr. With an addendum of the word hʾ in AH 288. Journal of Semitic Studies 62, 2017: 59–68.
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.

Current Location: In situ
Subjects: Apotropaic sign, Deity, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Religion, Women
Old OCIANA ID: #0033218
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