AH 069

Siglum
AH 069
Alternative Sigla
Sima 1999: 39
Transliteration
ʾʿtl / bn
mlḥ / ʾẓll
l- ḏġbt / ʿl-
y / ḏ- kn / l- -h
b- bdr
f rḍ -h
OCIANA
Translation
By / son of ʾʿtl son of
Mlḥ performed the ẓll-ceremony
to Ḏġbt for
that which belongs to him
in Bdr
and so favour him
OCIANA
Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Lines 2–3. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭll for ʾẓll. TRANSLATION Lines 2–3. ʾzll, Sima: '(he) covered (the subterranean water-channel)'. Line 3. bʿd, Sima: 'in the direction of'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 15–16, for the place name Bdr. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary
Line 2. The verb ʾẓll means "he performed the ẓll-ceremony", the exact nature of which we do not know. Usually, but not always, this verb is followed by the noun h-ẓll meaning "the ẓll-ceremony". Thus, ʾẓll and ʾẓll h-ẓll both mean "he performed the ẓll-ceremony". Lines 5–6. These lines are shorter than those above them.

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 198–200 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
#0037745
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