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AH 233

Text Information

Siglum
AH 233
Transliteration
[----] ---- s²nʾ---- ---- dṯʾ/w ʿ---- ʿn/ḥggw/ḏ---- krṯ----/ʿl- -hm/---- [f ] rḍ -hm/w ʾḫr{t} [-h][m] ---- {ʾ}y/h- n----/s²hr b---- w ʿbdʾs¹/b---- ----w wdʿ/b---- [----]
Translation
[----] ---- S²nʾ---- ---- crops of the season of the later rains and ʿ----- ʿn performed the pilgrimage ḏ---- krṯ---- for them {and so} favour them and {their} {posterity} ---- {ʾ}y h---- s²hr---- and ʿbdʾs² b---- ---- and Wdʿ b---- [----]

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 1. Abū l-Ḥasan: s²nʾ[h] for s²nʾ----. Line 6. Abū l-Ḥasan: h -n[q] s²hr [bn] for h- n---- s²hr ----. Line 7. Abū l-Ḥasan: [bn] for b----. Line 8. Abū l-Ḥasan: l- -h rather than ----w. TRANSLATION Line 2. dṯʾ, Abū l-Ḥasan: 'the spring harvest'.
Commentary
The inscription is broken on all sides.

Provenance
Jabal Umm Daraǧ
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
In relief

  • Abū ʾl-Ḥasan, Ḥ.ʿA.D. Nuqūš liḥyānīyah min minṭaqat al-ʿulā. (Dirāsah taḥlīliyyah muqāranah). al-Riyāḍ: Wizārat al-maʿārif, 2002. pp 129–132
Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Agriculture, Isolated Prayer, Religion, Season
Script
Dadanitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0033240
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