AH 075

Siglum
AH 075
Alternative Sigla
Sima 1999: 40
Transliteration
wtr / bn / ʿyḏ / ʾẓll
l- ḏġbt / ʿly / ḏ- kn
l- -h / b- bdr / f rhḍ -h
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Translation
By / son of / Wtr son of ʿyḏ performed the ẓll-ceremony
for Ḏġbt for that which belongs
to him in Bdr and so favour him
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Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 1. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭll rather than ʾẓll. Line 3. Abū l-Ḥasan: f rḍ for f rhḍ. TRANSLATION Line 1. 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 1. 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 3. The word rhḍ could be a sculptor's mistake for rḍ.

Editio Princeps
Sima 1999: 40

Technique
Incised
Direction of Script
Horizontal line right to left

Associated Inscriptions
It is to the left of AH 076 and above AH 074

  • [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 209–211 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, Place-name, Religion
Old OCIANA ID
#0037751
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Updated 08 Jan, 2025 by OCIANA