AH 234
Text Information
- Siglum
- AH 234
- Transliteration
- [----] ---- bn -hm/ṯbʾl/w ---- -----{d}/w bnwd/bny/{l}---- ----/h- n{q}/[l-] [ḏ]{ġ}bt/---- ---- {b-} bt -hm/w ʾ---- ----
- Translation
- [----] ---- their son Ṯbʾl and ---- ----{d} and Bnwd built {l}---- ---- {of the top of the mountain} {for} {Ḏġbt} ---- ---- {in} their sanctuary and ʾ---- [----]
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- TRANSLATION Line 3. 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 and the right sides, and at the bottom. Line 3. 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.
- Provenance
- Jabal Umm Daraǧ
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Incised
- Abū ʾl-Ḥasan, Ḥ.ʿA.D. Nuqūš liḥyānīyah min minṭaqat al-ʿulā. (Dirāsah taḥlīliyyah muqāranah). al-Riyāḍ: Wizārat al-maʿārif, 2002. pp 133–135
- 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
- Site
- The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Building, Deity, Genealogy, Religion, Structure, Topographic features
- Script
- Dadanitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0033241
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