AH 072

Siglum: AH 072
Alternative Sigla: Sima 1999: 40
Transliteration: rrms¹ / bn / s²rkh / ʾ[ẓ]l / b- khl / l- ḏġbt
bʿd / ḏ- kn / l- hm / b- ḏṯʿʿl
f rḍ -h / w ʾṯb -h
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Translation: By / son of / Rms¹ son of S²rkh {performed} the ẓll-ceremony at Khl for Ḏġbt
for the sake of that which belongs to them in Ḏṯʿʿl
and so favour him and reward him
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Language and Script: Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TEXT Line 1. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾ[ṭ]l rather than ʾ[ẓ]l. TRANSLATION Line 1. ʾ[ẓ]l, Sima: '(he) covered (the subterranean water-channel)'; b- khl, Abū l-Ḥasan: 'in the month Khl'; Sima: 'by his abilities'. Line 2. bʿd, Sima: 'in the direction of'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 19, for the place name Ḏṯʿʿl. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary: There is no photograph available of this text and the reading is based on the Abū l-Ḥasan's copy (1997: 468, pl. 10). Line 1. The verb ʾ[ẓ]l 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, ʾ[ẓ]l and ʾ[ẓ]l h-ẓll both mean "he performed the ẓll-ceremony".

[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 204–205 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

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