AH 063

Siglum
AH 063
Alternative Sigla
TMLT no. 3, Sima 1999: 38
Transliteration
ḥny / s¹lḥ / ḏġbt
ʾẓll / h- ẓl / l- ḏ-
ġbt / b- khl / f
rḍ -h / w ʾḫr-
t [-h] / s¹nt / ʿs²rn
tlmy
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Translation
Ḥny priest of Ḏġbt
{performed} the ẓl-ceremony for Ḏ-
ġbt at Khl and so
favour him and {his} desce-
dants in the year twenty of
Tlmy
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Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 1. Abū l-Ḥasan followed by Al-Turkī: hny for ḥny. Line 2. Abū l-Ḥasan followed by Al-Turkī: ʾṭll h- ṭl for ʾẓll h- ẓll. Line 2. Sima: [ʾ]{ẓ}ll/h- ẓl for ʾẓll/h- ẓll TRANSLATION Line 1. Sima does not translate the word s¹lḥ. Line 2. Sima: ʾẓll h- ẓll, '(he) covered the subterranean water-channel'. Line 3. b- khl, Abū l-Ḥasan: 'in the month Khl'; Sima: 'by his abilities'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 20–22, for the place name Khl. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary
Line 2. Both the ʾ at the beginning of the line and the second l in h-ẓll can be seen on the photograph Lines 5–6. These lines cannot be read clearly on the photograph and the reading is based on Abū l-Ḥasan's copy (1997: 467, pl. 9).

Editio Princeps
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Technique
Incised
Direction of Script
Horizontal line right to left

Associated Inscriptions
It is to the right of AH 064

  • [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 186–187 Plate 9
  • [TMLT] Al-Turkī, H.M. Al-malik al-liḥyānī (tlmy bn hnʾws) ruʾyah min ḫalāl al-nuqūš. Maǧallat ǧāmiʿat al-malik saʿūd 25: al-siyāḥah wa-ʾl-āṯār 1, 1434/2013: 73-83. No. 3 pp 77
  • 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
  • [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
Date (s¹nt), Deity, Isolated Prayer, Place-name, Religion
Old OCIANA ID
#0037740
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