AH 226

Siglum: AH 226
Alternative Sigla: TMLT no. 2
Transliteration: [----] ---- ḏ ndm/ḥ{g}– [w] ---- [b-] [h-] mṣd/ḥgt/---- ---- b- tḥfy/ʾqd ---- w ʾḫrt -hm/w s¹– ---- [n][t] ʿs²rn/w ʾrbʿ/24 ---- [t][l]ymy/bn/hnʾs¹/m{l}[k] ---- l[ḥ][y][n]
Translation: [----] ----of the lineage of Ndm performed ---- on the high [red] mountain the pilgrimage ---- ---- on the two sides of the mountain(?) offered ---- and their posterity and ----- twenty-four 24 ---- {Tlmy} son of Hnʾs¹ {king} of {Lḥyn}

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TEXT Line 2. Abū l-Ḥasan does not restore [w] at the beginning of this line. Line 3. Abū l-Ḥasan followed by Al-Turkī: b- tḥby rather than b- tḥfy. Line 4. Abū l-Ḥasan followed by Al-Turkī: [f rḍ -hm] at the beginning of this line. Line 5. Abū l-Ḥasan followed by Al-Turkī: [ʿd -hm s¹nt] at the beginning of this line.
Commentary: The inscription is broken on the right side and at the top. Line 3. b- tḥfy. The word ḥwf is found in Canaanite ḥōp 'river, border', Arabic ḥāfat, ḥifāf and ḥāffat 'border, ḥāyif 'side of a mountain', Qatabanian ḥwf 'border' (Cohen, Bron & Lonnet 1970–: 849). Line 7 is incised. In Classical Arabic (Lane 1863-1893: 2719b), the word maṣad means, among other things "a mountain top", or "a place of refuge". On the other hand, Abū l-Ḥasan (2002: 36–37) translates is as 'the high red mountain'. According to him, this meaning is consistent with the red colour of the Jabal Umm Daraǧ where the inscription has been found.

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Al-Turkī, H.M. Al-malik al-liḥyānī (tlmy bn hnʾws) ruʾyah min ḫalāl al-nuqūš. Maǧallat ǧāmiʿat al-malik saʿūd 25: al-siyāḥah wa-ʾl-āṯār 1, 1434/2013: 73-83. No. 2 pp 77
Lane, E.W. An Arabic-English Lexicon, Derived from the Best and Most Copious Eastern Sources. (Volume 1 in 8 parts [all published]). London: Williams & Norgate, 1863-1893.
Cohen, D., Bron, F., Lonnet, A. Dictionnaire des racines sémitiques: ou attestées dans les langues sémitiques: comprenant un fichier comparatif de Jean Cantineau. Paris: Mouton (fascs. 1-2) / Leuven: Peeters (fascs 3–), 1970–.