AH 071

Siglum
AH 071
Alternative Sigla
Sima 1999: 40
Transliteration
kndy / bn / ḥṣry
ʾẓll / l- ḏġbt
[ʿ][l]y / ḏ- kn / l- -h / b-
bdr / f rḍ -h / w ʾ-
ṯb -h
OCIANA
Translation
By / son of / Kndy son of Ḥṣry
performed the ẓll-ceremony for Ḏġbt
{for that} which belongs to him in
Bdr and so favour him and
rewarded him
OCIANA
Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 2. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭll for ʾẓll. TRANSLATION Line 2. ʾẓll, Sima: '(he) covered (the subterranean water-channel)'. 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". Line 5. This line is shorter than those above it.

Editio Princeps
Sima 1999: 40

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 202–203 Plate 10
  • 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 40
Site
Al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Deity, Genealogy, Place-name, Isolated Prayer, Religion
Old OCIANA ID
#0037747
Updated 08 Jan, 2025 by OCIANA

Cite this Site

OCIANA, 'AH 071,' ed. A. Al-Jallad and M.C.A. Macdonald, OCIANA, 08 Jan, 2025. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/15231. Accessed: 21 May, 2026.