AH 013

Siglum
AH 013
Alternative Sigla
Farès 2009: 183, no. 1, D 146, Scagliarini-U 001, Scagliarini 1996: 93–97, Ryckmans 3.28
Transliteration
s¹gl / bnt
s²mr / s¹lḥt
ḏġbt / ʾ-
ẓlt / h- ẓll
l- ḏġbt / b- k-
hl / hm -ḏ / nḏrt
f r{ḍ} {-h} / w {s¹}ʿd -h
w {ʾ}{ḫ}rt -h / s¹nt / ḫms¹
s²{h}r / {b}n / hnʾs¹
OCIANA
Translation
By / son of S¹gl daughter of
S²mr priestess of
Ḏġbt per-
formed the ẓll-ceremony
for Ḏġbt at K-
hl in accordance with what she vowed
and so {favour} {her} and {help} her
and her {posterity} in the year five
of {S²hr} {son of} Ḥnʾs¹
OCIANA
Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 1. Scagliarini: kgl for s¹gl. Lines 3–4. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭlt h- ṭll rather than ʾẓlt h- ẓll. Line 6. Farès-Drappeau: ----ḏ rather than hm- ḏ. TRANSLATION Line 2. Sima does not translate the word s¹lḥt. Lines 3–4. ʾẓlt h- ẓll, Sima: '(she) covered the water-channel'; Farès-Drappeau: '(she) offered the sacrifice'. Lines 5–6. b- khl, Abū l-Ḥasan: 'in the month Khl'; Sima: 'by her abilities'. Line 8. ʾ{ḫ}{r}t -h, Farès-Drappeau: '(he) has guided her'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 20–22, for the place name Khl. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.

Editio Princeps
OCIANA

Technique
Incised
Direction of Script
Horizontal line right to left

Associated Inscriptions
It is to the right of U 076, to the left of AH 011 and above AH 012

  • [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 84–88 Plate 2
  • Farès, S. Les femmes prêtresses dans les religions arabes préislamiques. Le cas des Liḥyanites. Pages 183-195 in F. Briquel-Chatonnet, S. Farès, B. Lion & C. Michel (eds), Femmes, cultures et sociétés dans les civilisations méditeranéennes et proche-orientales de l'Antiquité. (Topoi Supplément, 10). Paris: Gabalda. Lyon: Maison de l'Orient Meditérranée, 2009.
  • [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 216–217 Plate XXIX
  • 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
  • [NAU] Scagliarini, F. Le iscrizioni liḥyānitiche dell'Oasi di al-ʿUlā. Dottorato di ricerca in semitistica: linguistica semitica, Universita' degli studi di Firenze, anni accademici 1992-1994 . [unpublished thesis]. 1994. No. Ryckmans 3.28 pp 81–86 Plate I
  • Scagliarini, F. Šahr figlio di Han-Aws: il nome di un nuovo sovrano in un testo liḥyanitico inedito. Studi epigrafici e linguistici sul vicino oriente antico 13, 1996: 91-97.
  • [U] Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. No. Scagliarini-U 001 pp 33–34 Plate 28a (middle)
Site
Al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Date (s¹nt), Deity, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Place-name, Religion, Women
Old OCIANA ID
#0037735
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