AH 079

Text Information

Siglum
AH 079
Alternative Sigla
Sima 1999: 41
Transliteration
ʾmtktby / bnt
s¹lm / ʾgt / ẓll / ʿly- / ml
-h / b- ṯr / f rḍ -h / w s¹ʿd -h
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Translation
By / son of ʿmtktby daughter of
S¹lm organized a ẓll-ceremony for her pro-
perty in Ṯr and so favour her and help her
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Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 1. Sima: ʾmtktb(h) for ʾmtktby. Line 2. Abū l-Ḥasan: ṭll for ẓll. TRANSLATION Line 2. ʾgt, Abū l-Ḥasan: '(she) offered'; ʾgt ẓll, Sima: '(she) cleared out one subterranean water-channel'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 18, for the place name Ṯr.
Commentary
There is no photograph available of this text and the reading is based on Abū l-Ḥasan's copy (1997: 469, pl. 11).

Editio Princeps
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Technique
Copy only
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 217–219 Plate 11
  • Hidalgo-Chacón Díez, M. del C. Place names in the Dadanitic inscriptions of al-ʿUḏayb. Adumatu 30, 2014: 15-30
  • [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
Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Place-name, Religion, Women
Old OCIANA ID
#0037755
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