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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

AH 237

Text Information

Siglum
AH 237
Transliteration
ʾs¹/bn/zdmn---- t/mrrh ḏh ẓl---- ʿl -h/ʾs¹lḏ---- rt -h ---tʾ----
Translation
ʾs¹ son of Zdmn---- t Mrrh this ẓl---- for him ʾs¹lḏ---- rth ----tʾ----

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 1. Abū l-Ḥasan: zdmn[t] for zdmn----. Line 2. Abū l-Ḥasan: ṭll ---- rather than ẓl----. TRANSLATION Lines 1–2. zdmn---- t mrrh, Abū l-Ḥasan: 'Zdmnt daughter of Mrrh'.
Commentary
The inscription is damaged. It is broken on the left side. In addition, several letter of line 4 cannot be read clearly.

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 142–144
Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Genealogy, Religion
Script
Dadanitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0033244
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