AH 242

Text Information

Siglum
AH 242
Transliteration
[----]
----d / bn{w}
----t / ḥg
----bt / w h
----nyt / lḫr
----rm / w ʾẓll
----ḏġbt / b hm
----w / l- ʾhlht
----l / f rḍy -hm
----n / bn / nhʾs¹ / s¹nt / 40
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Translation
By / son of Hm [----]
----d {sons of}
----t ḥg
----bt and h
---- nyt lḫr
---- rm performed the ẓll-ceremony
---- Ḏġbt in h- m
----w for ʾhlht
---- l and may favour them
----n son of Hnʾs¹ year 40
OCIANA
Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 5. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭll for ʾẓll.
Commentary
The inscription is very damaged. It is broken on the right and the left side and at the top. Line 9. It seems that whoever carved the inscription suddenly found himself without enough space at the end of this line and squeezed in the remaining letters as best he could.

Editio Princeps
Abū l-Ḥasan 2002: 154–157

Technique
In relief
Direction of Script
Horizontal line right to left

  • [AH] Abū ʾl-Ḥasan, Ḥ.ʿA.D. Nuqūš liḥyānīyah min minṭaqat al-ʿulā. (Dirāsah taḥlīliyyah muqāranah). al-Riyāḍ: Wizārat al-maʿārif, 2002. pp 154–157
  • Hidalgo-Chacón Díez, M. del C. [Review of: Abū ʾl-Ḥasan, Ḥ.ʿA.D., Nuqūš liḥyānīya min minṭaqat al-῾Ulā: dirāsa taḥlīlīya muqārana. Al-Riyāḍ: Wizārat al-ma῾ārif wakālat al-wizāra li-l-āṯār wa-ʾl-matāḥif, 1423 h./2002 m]. Journal of Semitic Studies 54, 2009: 611–613
Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Date (s¹nt), Genealogy, Religion
Old OCIANA ID
#0033249
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