AH 220

Siglum
AH 220
Transliteration
----wdb---- bn / zd---- ḏġbt ----ṣ---- t / b---- rt -hm ----d -hm / t{l} m----r---- / bn / rym / {h-} s¹fr / w [d]ḥlh / h- ṣnʿ / b
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Translation
By / son of / ----wdb son of Zd---- Ḏġbt ----ṣ----- t b---- rt their ----d t{l} m----r---- son of Rym {the} carver and {Dḥlh} the artisan B
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Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 2. Abū l-Ḥasan: zd----d ḥ for zd----. Line 3. Abū l-Ḥasan: [b- h]mṣ{d} rather than ----ṣ----. Line 4. Abū l-Ḥasan: t b khl [f] rḍ -hm {w ʾḫ} rather than t b---- . Line 5. Abū l-Ḥasan: [w s¹]ʿd -h rather than ----d -hm. Line 6. Abū l-Ḥasan: my r----lh for m----r----. Line 7. Abū l-Ḥasan: {r}ḥml for [d]ḥlh. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary
The inscription is broken on the left side and at the top. Several of the surviving letters have also been damaged. Line 7. The occurrence of the words s¹fr and ṣnʿ followed by personal names is attested also in JSLih 082/7–8 (see there for commentaries). The word ṣnʿ appears also in JSLih 035/1, JSLih 074 and JSLih 075/1–2. The isolated last letter of the inscription does not provide a sense to the text. It could be considered as an apotropaic symbol, but this is usually represented by the letter ḏ in Dadanitic.

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Technique
In relief
Direction of Script
Horizontal line right to left

  • [AH] Abū ʾl-Ḥasan, Ḥ.ʿA.D. Nuqūš liḥyānīyah min minṭaqat al-ʿulā. (Dirāsah taḥlīliyyah muqāranah). al-Riyāḍ: Wizārat al-maʿārif, 2002. pp 95–99
  • Hidalgo-Chacón Díez. M. del C. The divine names at Dadan: a philological approach. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 46, 2016: 125–136
  • [JSLih] Jaussen, A. & Savignac, M.R. Mission archéologique en Arabie. I. (Mars-Mai 1907) De Jérusalem au Hedjaz, Médain Saleh. II. El-ʿEla, d'Hégra à Teima Harrah de Tebouk. Texte et Atlas. III. Les châteaux arabes de Quṣeir ʿAmra, Ḫarâneh, et Tûba. (5 volumes). (Publications de la Société Française des Fouilles Archéologiques, 2). [Reprinted Cairo: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1997]. Paris: Leroux/Geuthner, 1909–1920. No. 82 pp 452–454 Plate LXXXVIII, CX
Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Apotropaic sign, Deity, Genealogy
Old OCIANA ID
#0033228
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