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AH 011

Text Information

Siglum
AH 011
Alternative Sigla
Sima 1999: 37; D 144
Transliteration
bnwd/w ʿlws²/ḏ- w– ndm/hẓllw/ẓll/h- nq/l- ḏġ[b]t/f rḍ -hm
Translation
Bnwd and ʿlws² of the lineage of W– ndm performed the ẓll-ceremony of the top of the mountain for {Ḏġbt} and so favour them

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 2. Abū l-Ḥasan: hṭllw ṭll rather than hẓllw ẓll. TRANSLATION Line 2. hẓllw ẓll, Sima; '(he) covered ???'; Farès-Drappeau: '(he) offered the sacrifice'. Lines 2–3. h- nq, Abū l-Ḥasan: 'the female camels'; Farès-Drappeau: 'the female camel'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.

Provenance
Al-ʿUḏayb (Jabal ʿIkmah)
Original Reading Credit
Sima 1999: 37
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Incised

Associated Inscriptions
It is to the right of AH 013

  • 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 81–83 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 216
  • Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 37 Plate 28a
  • 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, Lineage, Religion, Topographic features
Script
Dadanitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0037733
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