AH 090

Siglum
AH 090
Alternative Sigla
Sima 1999: 42
Transliteration
s¹lm / s¹lḥt / ḏ-
ġbt[ / ]ʾẓlt / h- ẓ-
ll / l- ḏġbt
bʿd / d[ṯ]ʾ -h
f rḍ -h
OCIANA
Translation
S¹lm priestess of ḏ-
ġbt performed the
ẓll-ceremony for Ḏġbt
for the sake of her {crops of the season of the later rains}
and so favour her
OCIANA
Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Lines 2–3. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭlt h- ṭll rather than ʾẓlt h- ẓll. Line 4. Abū l-Ḥasan: d[ṯ] [-h] rather than d[ṯ]ʾ -h. TRANSLATION Line 1. Sima does not translate the word s¹lḥt. Lines 2–3. ʾẓlt h- ẓll, Sima: '(she) covered the subterranean water-channel'. Line 4. bʿd d[ṯ]ʾ -h, Sima: 'in the direction of her spring field'. DISCUSSION Macdonald 1992: 2–3, 7 for the translation of dṯʾ. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary
Line 5. This line is shorter than those above it.

Editio Princeps
OCIANA

Technique
Incised
Direction of Script
Horizontal line right to left

Associated Inscriptions
It is to the right of AH 087 and AH 089

  • [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 239–241 Plate 12
  • 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
Agriculture, Deity, Isolated Prayer, Religion, Season, Women
Old OCIANA ID
#0037762
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