AH 077

Siglum
AH 077
Alternative Sigla
Sima 1999: 40–41
Transliteration
llt / bn / ʿbny
ʾẓll / h- ẓll / b-
ʿd / ḏ- kn / l- -h
b- bdr / mn / nḫl {-h}
f rḍ -h / l- ḏġbt
OCIANA
Translation
By Ḏġbt son of Llt son of ʿbny
performed the ẓll-ceremony for
the sake of that which belongs to him
in Bdr from {his} palm trees
and so favour him to Ḏġbt
OCIANA
Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 1. Sima: ʿb{d}y for ʿbny. Line 2. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭll h- ṭll rather than ʾẓll h- ẓll. Line 4. Abū l-Ḥasan followed by Sima does not read the pronoun -h. TRANSLATION Line 2. ʾẓll h- ẓll, Sima: '(he) covered the subterranean water-channel'. Line 3. bʿd, Sima: 'in the direction of'. Line 4. mn nḫl {-h}, Sima: 'in one palm garden'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 15–16, for the place name Bdr. 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 above AH 076

  • [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 213–215 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 40–41
Site
Al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Agriculture, Deity, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Place-name, Religion
Old OCIANA ID
#0037753
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