AH 068

Siglum
AH 068
Alternative Sigla
Sima 1999: 39
Transliteration
ṣḫbn / bn / wʾlh / ʾẓll
h- ẓll / b- khl / l- ḏġbt
bʿd / ḏ- kn / l- -h / b- bdr
f rḍ -h / w ʾḫrt -h
OCIANA
Translation
By / son of / Ṣḫbn son of Wʾlh performed
the ẓll-ceremony at Khl for Ḏġbt
for the sake of that which belongs to him in Bdr
and so favour him and his posterity
OCIANA
Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Lines 1–2. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭll h- ṭll rather than ʾẓll h- ẓll. TRANSLATION Lines 2–3: ʾẓll h- ẓll, Sima: '(he) covered the subterranean water-channel'. Line 2. b- khl, Abū l-Ḥasan: 'in the month Khl'; Sima: 'by his abilities'. Line 4. bʿd, Sima: 'in the direction of'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 15–16, 20–22, for the place names Bdr and Khl. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.

Editio Princeps
Sima 1999: 39

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 196–198 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
Deity, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Place-name, Religion
Old OCIANA ID
#0037744
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