AH 062

Siglum
AH 062
Alternative Sigla
Sima 1999: 38
Transliteration
ʿyḏh / bnt / ʾs¹mnt / ʾẓl-
t[ / ]b- khl / h- ẓll / ḏh / l- ḏġ-
bt / bʿd / nḫl -h[ / ][b-] ḏʿmn
f rḍ -h
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Translation
By -h son of ʿyḏh daughter of ʾs¹mnt per-
formed at Khl this ẓll-ceremony for Ḏġ-
bt for the sake of her palm trees {in} Ḏʿmn
and so favour her
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Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Lines 1–2. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭlt for ʾẓlt and h- ṭll rather than h- ẓll. TRANSLATION Lines 1–2. ʾẓlt h- ẓll ḏh, Sima: '(she) covered this subterranean water-channel'. Line 2. b- khl, Abū l-Ḥasan: 'in the month Khl'; Sima: 'by her abilities'. Line 3. bʿd, Sima: 'in the direction of'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 19–22, for the place names Ḏʿmn and Khl.

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Technique
Copy only
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 184–185 Plate 9
  • Hidalgo-Chacón Díez, M. del C. Place names in the Dadanitic inscriptions of al-ʿUḏayb. Adumatu 30, 2014: 15-30
  • [U] Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 38
Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Agriculture, Deity, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Place-name, Religion, Women
Old OCIANA ID
#0037739
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