AH 078

Siglum
AH 078
Alternative Sigla
Sima 1999: 41
Transliteration
ʿbdlh / w ʾmtk-
tbh / w ʾmt[h]n-
ʾktb / w ḥnl[h]
ʾẓ{l}w / l- ḏġbt
f rḍ -hm
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Translation
By -hm son of ʿbdlh and ʾmtk-
tbh and {ʾmthn-
ʾktb} and {Ḥnlh}
{performed} the ẓll-ceremony to Ḏġbt
and so favour them
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Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 2. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾbtn for ʾmt[h]n. Line 3. Abū l-Ḥasan: ḍḥnl rather than w ḥnl[h]. Line 4. Abū l-Ḥasan: [ʾg]w rather than ʾẓ{l}w. TRANSLATION Line 4. ʾẓ{l}w, Sima: '(they) covered (the subterranean water-channel)'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary
Line 4. The verb ʾẓ{l}w means "they 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, ʾẓ{l}w and ʾẓ{l}w h-ẓll both mean "they performed the ẓll-ceremony".

Editio Princeps
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Technique
Incised
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 215–217 Plate 10
  • 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 41
Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Deity, Isolated Prayer, Religion
Old OCIANA ID
#0037754
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