AH 004

Siglum
AH 004
Alternative Sigla
D 137, Sima 1999: 36
Transliteration
ws²ḥ / bn / wdd ḏ- ḏmr / ʾẓl- l / h- ẓll / l / l- ḏġbt / f rḍy -h / w s¹ʿ- d -h / w ʾḫrt [-h]
OCIANA
Translation
By / son of / Ws²ḥ son of Wdd of the lineage of Ḏmr performed the ẓll-ceremony for Ḏġbt and so may he favour him and may he help him and {his} posterity
OCIANA
Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Lines 2–3. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭll h- ṭll rather than ʾẓll h- ẓll. TRANSLATION Lines 2–3: ʾẓll h- ẓll, Sima: '(he) covered the subterranean water-channel'; Farès-Drappeau: '(he) offered the sacrifice'. Line 6. ʾḫrt [-h], Farès-Drappeau: 'he has guided him'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary
Line 3. The double writing of l can be considered as dittography. The second l is not read by Farès-Drappeau, even though it can be seen in the photograph and in the Abū l-Ḥasan's copy (1997: 459, pl. 1).

Editio Princeps
Sima 1999: 36

Technique
Incised
Direction of Script
Horizontal line right to left

Associated Inscriptions
It it to the left of U 077

  • [AH] Abū ʾl-Ḥasan, Ḥ.ʿA.D. Qirāʾah li-kitābāt liḥyāniyyah min ǧabal ʿakmah bi-minṭaqat al-ʿulā. Al-Riyāḍ: Maktabat al-malik fahd al-waṭaniyyah, 1997. pp 68–70 Plate 1
  • [D] Farès-Drappeau, S. Dédan et Liḥyān. Histoire des Arabes aux confins des pouvoirs perse et hellénistique (IVe–IIe s. avant l'ère chrétienne). (Travaux de la maison de l'Orient, 42). Lyon: Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée — Jean Pouilloux, 2005. pp 213–214 Plate XXVII
  • 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
  • [U] Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 36
Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Deity, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Place-name, Religion
Old OCIANA ID
#0037727
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