AH 228

Siglum: AH 228
Transliteration: ʾrs²/b{n} ---- h- nq/l- ḏ[ġ][b][t] ---- [----]
Translation: ʾrs² {son of} ---- of the top of the mountain for {Ḏġbt} ---- [----]

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TEXT Line 2. Abū l-Ḥasan: l- ḏ ---- rather than l- ḏ[ġ][b][t] ----. TRANSLATION Line 2. h -nq, Abū l-Ḥasan: 'the female camels'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary: The inscription is broken on the left side and at the bottom. Line 2. Given that all the inscriptions mentioning h-nq are located on the way up Jabal ʿIkmah or at the top of Jabal Umm Daraǧ, this interpretation ('on the top of the mountain') seems appropriate and it seems unlikely that nq in these cases would refer to female camels (nāq or nūq), as suggested by Abū l-Ḥasan. Indeed, his translation raises the question of how one would have got the female camels to the top of Jabal Umm Daraǧ.

Abū ʾl-Ḥasan, Ḥ.ʿA.D. Nuqūš liḥyānīyah min minṭaqat al-ʿulā. (Dirāsah taḥlīliyyah muqāranah). al-Riyāḍ: Wizārat al-maʿārif, 2002. pp 120–122
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