AH 074

Siglum
AH 074
Alternative Sigla
Sima 1999: 40
Transliteration
ʿm / bnt / bs²
ʾẓlt / ʾẓl-
l / l- ḏġbt
bʿd / nʿm -h / b-
bnʾl / f rḍ -h
w ʾḫrt -h
OCIANA
Translation
By / son of / ʿm daughter of Bs²
performed ẓll-
ceremonies for Ḏġbt
for the sake of her property in
Bnʾl and so favour her
and her posterity
OCIANA
Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 1. Abū l-Ḥasan: bs²{r} for bs². Lines 2–3. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭlt ʾṭll rather than ʾẓlt ʾẓll. TRANSLATION Lines 2–3. ʾẓlt ʾẓll, Sima: '(she) covered the subterranean water-channels'. Line 4. bʿd nʿm -h, Sima: 'in the direction of her field (?)'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 17, for the place name Bnʾl. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.

Editio Princeps
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Technique
Incised
Direction of Script
Horizontal line right to left

Associated Inscriptions
It is below AH 075

  • [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 207–209 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, Isolated Prayer, Place-name, Religion, Women
Old OCIANA ID
#0037750
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