AH 008

Siglum: AH 008
Alternative Sigla: D 141, Sima 1999: 36–37
Transliteration: zdlh[ / ][b][n] / tnʿ ʾẓll / l- ḏ- ġbt / h- ẓll f rḍ -h / w ʾḫ- rt -h / w s¹ʿd -h
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Translation: By -h son of Zdlh {son of } Tnʿ performed for Ḏ- ġbt the ẓll-ceremony and so favour him and his posterity and help him
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Language and Script: Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TEXT Line 1. Farès-Drappeau does not restore [b][n], but she translates it. Line 2. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭll rather than ʾẓll. Line 3. Abū l-Ḥasan: h- ṭll for h- ẓll. TRANSLATION Lines 2–3. ʾẓll l- ḏġbt h- ẓll, Sima: '(he) covered for Ḏġbt the subterranean water-channel'; Farès-Drappeau: '(he) offered for Ḏġbt the sacrifice'. Lines 4–5. ʾḫrt -h, Farès-Drappeau: 'he has guided him'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary: The person who carved this omitted bn between the two names in line 1. Compare AH 009 which is either by a brother of the author of AH 008, or another version of this text in which the author's name has become zd rather than zdlh here, but the bn, which was omitted in AH 008, has been inserted before the patronym.

[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 76–77 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 215
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 36–37

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