AH 089

Siglum
AH 089
Alternative Sigla
Sima 1999: 42
Transliteration
----ns²ms¹ / bn
kdn / ʾẓll
h- ẓll / l- ḏġbt
ʿly- / ml -hm / b- ḏʿ-
mn / f rḍ -h / w ʾḫ-
rt -h
OCIANA
Translation
By -h son of ----ns²ms¹/bn
Kdn performed
the ẓll-ceremony for Ḏġbt
for their property in Ḏʿ-
mn and so favour him and his
posterity
OCIANA
Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 1. Abū l-Ḥasan: {ṣ}ns²ms¹ for ----ns²ms¹. Lines 2–3. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭll h- ṭll rather than ʾẓll h- ẓll. TRANSLATION Lines 2–3. ʾẓll h- ẓll, Sima: '(he) covered the subterranean water-channel'. Line 4. bʿd, Sima: 'in the direction of'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 19–20, for the place name Ḏʿmn. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary
Lines 1–2. These lines are shorter than those below them. Line 4: It is not clear to whom the plural pronominal suffix is referring, since only one person is mentioned above and the verb ʾẓll is in the singular. Line 6. This line is shorter than those above it.

Editio Princeps
Sima 1999: 42

Technique
Incised
Direction of Script
Horizontal line right to left

Associated Inscriptions
It is below AH 087 and to the left of AH 090

  • [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 237–239 Plate 12
  • 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 42
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
#0037761
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