AH 009

Text Information

Siglum
AH 009
Alternative Sigla
D 142, Sima 1999: 37
Transliteration
zd / bn / tnʿ / ʾ- ẓll / l- ḏġbt h- ẓll / f rḍ -h / w ʾḫrt -h / w s¹ʿd -h
OCIANA
Translation
By -h son of Zd son of Tnʿ per- formed for Ḏġbt the ẓll-ceremony and so favour him and his posterity and help him
OCIANA
Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Lines 1–2. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭll rather than ʾẓll and h- ṭll rather than h- ẓll. TRANSLATION Lines 1–3. ʾẓll l- ḏġbt h- ẓll, Sima; '(he) covered for Ḏġbt the subterranean water-channel'; Farès-Drappeau: '(he) offered for Ḏġbt the sacrifice'. Line 4. ʾḫrt -h, Farès-Drappeau: '(he) has guided him'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary
This is either by a brother of the author of AH 008, or another version of that text in which this time the author's name has become zd rather than zdlh, but the bn, which was omitted in AH 008, has here been included before the patronym.

Editio Princeps
Sima 1999: 37

Technique
Incised
Direction of Script
Horizontal line right to left

  • [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 77–79 Plate 2
  • [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 37
Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Deity, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Religion
Old OCIANA ID
#0037731
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