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AH 243

Text Information

Siglum
AH 243
Transliteration
[----] ----ḫ---- ----ḥyyh/bnt ---- ---- rḫmn/bḍʿ/---- ---- wld -h/ʾgww/h ḫ---- ----d/hm ḏ/trk/ʾ---- ----y/hm/nḏr/l- ḏġ[b][t]---- ----/mṣd/ʿr---- ----th---- [----]
Translation
[----] ----ḫ---- ---- Ḥyyh daughter of ---- ---- Rḫmn Bḍʿ ---- ---- his/her son organized h ḫ---- ----d in accordance with what he arranged ʾ---- ----y what he vowed to {Ḏġbt} ---- the high [red] mountain ʿr---- ----th---- [----]

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 5. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾb [-hm] for ʾ----. TRANSLATION Line 4. ʾgww, Abū l-Ḥasan: '(they) offered'. Line 5. hm ḏ trk, Abū l-Ḥasan: 'since (he) left'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary
The inscription is broken on all sides.

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 158–161
  • 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
Deity, Genealogy, Relatives, Religion, Topographic features, Women
Script
Dadanitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0033358
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