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
Translation: ----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

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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