AH 064

Siglum: AH 064
Alternative Sigla: TMLT no. 4, Ryckmans 3.22c, Sima 1999: 38
Transliteration: tmlk / bnt
hh{t} / ʾẓlt
l- ḏġ[b]t / b- kh-
l / s¹tt / ʿs²r / m-
n / s¹nt / mt / ʿl-
h / f rḍ -h / w ʾḫr-
t -h / ʿdb / s¹nt
ʿs²rn / tlmy / [m][l][k][ / ][l-]
ḥyn
OCIANA
Translation: By / son of Tmlk daughter of
{Hht} performed the ẓll-ceremony
for {Ḏġbt} at Kh-
l sixteen [times?] from
the year of the death of ʿl-
h and so favour her and
her posterity ʾdb the year
twenty of Tlmy {king of} {L-
ḥyn}
OCIANA
Language and Script: Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TEXT Line 2. Abū l-Ḥasan followed by Al-Turkī: hd[m] rather than hd{l}, and ʾṭlt for ʾẓlt. Line 7. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʿdb as two separate words. Lines 6–8. Scagliarini does not read lines 6–8, except the restoration [mlk l-] in line 8. TRANSLATION Line 2. ʾẓlt, Sima: '(she) covered (the subterranean water-channel)'. Line 3. b- khl. Abū l-Ḥasan: 'in the month Khl'; Sima: 'by her abilities'. Line 7. ʿd b, Abū l-Ḥasan: 'whoever wrote the inscription in'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 20–22, for the place name Khl. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary: Line 1: Although the name is bizarre, Sacgliarini's reading of the first name best fits the letters on the photograph. Line 4: s¹tt/ʿs²r. If this were to mean "sixteen" the numeral here would have the same form as in Arabic (that is with the unit preceding the ten and no w connective), whereas in U 8/4–5 "seventeen" is expressed as ʿ{s²}r w s¹bʿ (see Macdonald 2004: 522). Lines 6–9. These lines cannot be read clearly on the photograph and the reading is based on the Abū l-Ḥasan's copy (1997: 467, pl. 9).

[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 187–190 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. 4 pp 78
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
[Lane] Lane, E.W. An Arabic-English Lexicon, Derived from the Best and Most Copious Eastern Sources. (Volume 1 in 8 parts [all published]). London: Williams & Norgate, 1863-1893.
Macdonald, M.C.A. Ancient North Arabian. Pages 488-533 in R.D. Woodard (ed.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Scagliarini, F. The origin of the Qanāt system in the al-ʿUlā area and the Ǧabal ʿIkma insriptions. ARAM 13-14, 2001-2002: 569-579.
[U] Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 38

Current Location: In situ
Subjects: Date (s¹nt), Deity, Genealogy, Historical, Isolated Prayer, Religion, Women
Old OCIANA ID: #0037741
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