AH 073

Siglum
AH 073
Alternative Sigla
Sima 1999: 40
Transliteration
ʿmḏḫr / bn / whb
[ḏ-] ḫmṣ / ʾẓll
l- ḏġbt / bʿd / mrb[ḍ] -h
b- ḏʿmn / f rḍ -h / w ʾ[ḫ][r]t -h
OCIANA
Translation
By / son of / ʿmḏḫr son of Whb
{of the family of} Ḫmṣ performed the ẓll-ceremony
for Ḏġbt for the sake of his {field} (?)
in Ḏʿmn and so favour him and his {posterity}
OCIANA
Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 2. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭll for ʾẓll. Line 3. Abū l-Ḥasan: mrb[ṭ] -h rather than mrb[ḍ] -h. TRANSLATION Line 2. ʾẓll, Sima: '(he) covered (the subterranean water-channel)'. Line 3. bʿd, Sima: 'in the direction of'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 19–20, for the place name Ḏʿmn. 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".

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 205–207 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
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Deity, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Lineage, Place-name, Religion
Old OCIANA ID
#0037749
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