AH 289
Text Information
- Siglum
- AH 289
- Transliteration
- mʿn/h- rʿy ʿmn/yʿrr -h ḏġbt w ṭḥln
- Translation
- Mʿn [is] the herdsman ʿmn may dishonour him Ḏġbt and Ṭḥln
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- TEXT Line 2: Abū l-Ḥasan: fmn rather than ʿmn. TRANSLATION Line 4. Abū l-Ḥasan: Ṭḥln personal name. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
- Commentary
- Although the inscription is carved from left to right, several letters face in the opposite direction. Line 3. Note the Taymanitic form of ġ. Line 4. The deity Ṭḥln also occurs in Al-Said 2011.
- Provenance
- Danan
- 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 223–224
- Al-Saʿīd, S.F. Recent epigraphic evidence from the excavations at Al-ʿUlā reveals a new king of Dadān. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 22, 2011: 196-200.
- 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
- Curse, Deity
- Script
- Dadanitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0033295
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