AH 066

Siglum
AH 066
Alternative Sigla
Sima 1999: 39
Transliteration
s¹ʿd / bn / {s¹}{l}mh
ʾẓll / h- ẓll / ḏ-
h / l- ḏġbt / bʿd
dṯʾ -h / b- ḏʾdn /
f rḍ -h / w s¹ʿd -h
OCIANA
Translation
By / son of / S¹ʿd son of {S¹lmh}
performed this ẓll-ceremony
for Ḏġbt for the sake of
his crops of the season of the later rains in Ḏʾdn
and so favour him and help him
OCIANA
Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 2. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭll rather than ʾẓll. TRANSLATION Lines 2–3. ʾẓll h- ẓll ḏh, Sima: '(he) covered this subterranean water-channel'. Line 3. bʿd, Sima: 'in the direction of'. Line 4. dṯʾ -h, Abū l-Ḥasan: 'his spring harvest'; Sima: 'his spring field'. DISCUSSION Macdonald 1992: 2–3, 7 for dṯʾ. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 18, for the place name Ḏʾdn. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary
Lines 4–5. These lines are not aligned on the right side.

Editio Princeps
OCIANA

Technique
Incised
Direction of Script
Horizontal line right to left

Associated Inscriptions
It is to the right of AH 065

  • [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 192–194 Plate 9
  • 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 39
Site
Al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Agriculture, Deity, Genealogy, Place-name, Isolated Prayer, Religion, Season
Old OCIANA ID
#0037743
Updated 08 Jan, 2025 by OCIANA

Cite this Site

OCIANA, 'AH 066,' ed. A. Al-Jallad and M.C.A. Macdonald, OCIANA, 08 Jan, 2025. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/15227. Accessed: 21 May, 2026.