AH 219

Siglum
AH 219
Transliteration
----d / b{n} / z---- nyq ----
----bt / ḥgt / h- mṣd / f rḍ -h / {w} s¹-
ʿd -h / b- rʾy / hrf / s¹nt / ḫms¹ / ntn
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Translation
By / son of / ----d {son of} Z---- nyq ----
----bt performed the pilgrimage on the high [red] mountain and so favour her {and} he-
lp her in the government of Hrf in year five of Ntn
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Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 1. Abū l-Ḥasan: ---- nyq ----l rather than z---- nyq ----. Line 2. Abū l-Ḥasan: [ḏġ]bt [ṭl]t for ----bt ḥgt. Line 3. Abū l-Ḥasan: hrm for hrf.
Commentary
The beginning of the inscriptions is destroyed. We are not sure how many lines have been lost. The fact that the enclitic pronouns are in the singular and the verb in the feminine singular suggests that it was a woman who commissioned the inscription. In Classical Arabic (Lane 1863-1893: 2719b), the word maṣad means, among other things "a mountain top", or "a place of refuge". On the other hand, Abū l-Ḥasan (2002: 36–37) translates is as 'the high red mountain'. According to him, this meaning is consistent with the red colour of the Jabal Umm Daraǧ where the inscription has been found.

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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 93–95
  • [Lane] Lane, E.W. An Arabic-English Lexicon, Derived from the Best and Most Copious Eastern Sources. (Volume 1 in 8 parts [all published]). London: Williams & Norgate, 1863-1893.
Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Date (s¹nt), Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Religion, Topographic features, Women
Old OCIANA ID
#0033353
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