AH 222

Siglum: AH 222
Transliteration: ---- ḏ ʾlhrbt ʾdq---- s¹---- l- ḏġbt ʾmt -{h}my ʿyḏh b{n}t ʾmthnʿṯt ---- h----t ym ʾqd h- m---- l- ḫrg s¹nt s¹t hnʾs¹ mlk lḥyn f ʿ– rr ḏġbt ʿrr h- s¹fr
Translation: ---- of the lineage of ʾlhrbt offered S¹---- to Ḏġbt {their} maidservant ʿyḏh {daughter of} ʾmthnʿṯt ---- h----t day offered the m---- to Ḫrg Year six of Hnʾs¹ king of Lḥyn and so may Ḏġbt dishonour the dishonourer of this inscription

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TEXT Line 1. Abū l-Ḥasan: t----t ḏ ʾlhrbt ʾdqt w s¹lḥ rather than ---- ḏ ʾlhrbt ʾdq---- s¹----. Line 2. Abū l-Ḥasan: t l- ḏġbt for l- ḏġbt and ʾmtlmy rather than ʾmt -hmy. Line 3. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾmthnʿzt {ʾ}hdt for ʾmthnʿṯt ---- h----t. Line 4. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾqdm l-ḫrg for ʾqd h- m---- l- ḫrg. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary: The inscription is badly incised. The sizes of the letters are not consistent and there are no word-dividers. Several words cannot be read clearly. Note that there must have been two authors of this text since the pronominal suffix in line 2 is in the dual. Since there are no word-dividers in this text it is impossible to be sure whether the lineage is expressed in the normal way in Dadanitic, ḏ ʾlhrbt, or in the form used in other Ancient North Arabian inscriptions, ḏ ʾl hrbt. The theophoric name ʾmt-hn-ʿṯt is unusual.

Abū ʾl-Ḥasan, Ḥ.ʿA.D. Nuqūš liḥyānīyah min minṭaqat al-ʿulā. (Dirāsah taḥlīliyyah muqāranah). al-Riyāḍ: Wizārat al-maʿārif, 2002. pp 104–107
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

Current Location: In situ
Subjects: Curse, Date (s¹nt), Deity, Genealogy, Historical, Isolated Prayer, Lineage, Religion, Women
Script: Dadanitic
Old OCIANA ID: #0033231
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