AH 010

Siglum
AH 010
Alternative Sigla
D 143, Ryckmans 3.33, Sima 1999: 37
Transliteration
ʿbdḏġbt
s¹lḥ / ḏġbt
ʾẓll / h- ẓll
b- khl / l- ḏġ-
bt / bʿd / ḏ-
kn / l- -h / b- b-
dr / f rḍ -h
OCIANA
Translation
ʿbdḏġbt
priest of Ḏġbt
performed the ẓll-ceremony
at Khl for Ḏġ-
bt for the sake of that which
belongs to him in B-
dr and so favour him
OCIANA
Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 3. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭll h- ṭll for ʾẓll h- ẓll. TRANSLATION Line 2. Sima does not translate the word s¹lḥ. Line 3. ʾẓll h- ẓll, Sima; '(he) covered the subterranean water-channel'; Farès-Drappeau: '(he) offered the sacrifice'. Line 4. b- khl, Abū l-Ḥasan: 'in the month Khl'; Sima: 'by his abilities'. Line 5. bʿd, Sima: 'in the direction of'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 20–22, for the place name Khl. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary
Due to a crack in the rock face, the lines are not aligned on the left side.

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 79–81 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 215–216 Plate XXVIII
  • Hidalgo-Chacón Díez, M. del C. Place names in the Dadanitic inscriptions of al-ʿUḏayb. Adumatu 30, 2014: 15-30
  • 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
  • [Ryckmans] Scagliarini, F. The Dedanitic inscriptions from Ǧabal ʿIkma in north-western Hejaz. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 29, 1999: 143-150. pp 147–148
  • [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, Isolated Prayer, Place-name, Religion
Old OCIANA ID
#0037732
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