AH 076

Siglum
AH 076
Alternative Sigla
Sima 1999: 40
Transliteration
s¹lm / bnt / ʿbḫms¹
ʾẓlt / l- ḏġbt
bʿd / nʿm -h / b- bnʾ[l]
f rḍ -h / w [ʾ]ḫrt -h
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Translation
By / son of / S¹lm daughter of ʿbḫms¹
performed the ẓll-ceremony for Ḏġbt
for the sake of her property in {Bnʾl}
and so favour her and her {posterity}
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Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 1. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʿb[d]]ḫms¹ rather than ʿbḫms¹. Line 2. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭlt rather than ʾẓlt. TRANSLATION Line 2. ʾẓlt, Sima: '(she) covered (the subterranean water-channel)'. Line 3. bʿd nʿm -h, Sima: 'in the direction of her field(?)'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 17, for the place name Bnʾ[l]. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary
Line 2. The verb ʾẓlt means "she 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, ʾẓlt and ʾẓlt h-ẓll both mean "she performed the ẓll-ceremony".

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

Associated Inscriptions
It is below AH 077 and to the right of 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 211–213 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, Funerary, Isolated Prayer, Place-name, Religion, Women
Old OCIANA ID
#0037752
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Updated 08 Jan, 2025 by OCIANA