AH 010
Text Information
- Siglum
- AH 010
- Alternative Sigla
- Sima 1999: 37; Ryckmans 3.33; D 143
- Transliteration
- ʿbdḏġbt s¹lḥ/ḏġbt ʾẓll/h- ẓll b- khl/l- ḏġ– bt/bʿd/ḏ- kn/l- -h/b- b– dr/f rḍ -h
- 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
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.
- Provenance
- Al-ʿUḏayb (Jabal ʿIkmah)
- Original Reading Credit
- Sima 1999: 37
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Incised
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 37
- 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
- Site
- The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Deity, Isolated Prayer, Place-name, Religion
- Script
- Dadanitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0037732
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