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AH 007

Text Information

Siglum
AH 007
Alternative Sigla
Sima 1999: 36; D 140
Transliteration
gzʾh/bnt/ʾlt ʾẓlt/h- ẓll/l- ḏ– ġbt/f rḍ -h/w ʾḫrt -h
Translation
Gzʾh daughter of ʾlt performed the ẓll-ceremony for Ḏ– ġbt and so favour her and her posterity

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 2. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭlt h- ṭll for ʾẓlt h- ẓll. TRANSLATION Line 2. ʾẓlt h- ẓll, Sima: '(she) covered the water-channel'; Farès-Drappeau: '(she) offered the sacrifice'. Line 3. ʾḫrt -h, Farès-Drappeau: 'he has guided him'.

Provenance
Al-ʿUḏayb (Jabal ʿIkmah)
Original Reading Credit
Sima 1999: 36
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Incised

Associated Inscriptions
It is above AH 006

  • 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 74–76 Plate 1
  • 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 214–215 Plate XXVIII
  • 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
Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Religion, Women
Script
Dadanitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0037729
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