AH 091

Text Information

Siglum
AH 091
Alternative Sigla
Sima 1999: 42
Transliteration
ʾmtṣd / bnt / bs¹rh
s¹lḥ / ḏġbt / ʾẓl-
t / ẓll
w f ---- / bʿd
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Translation
By / son of / ʾmtṣd daughter of Bs¹rh
priest of Ḏġbt perfor-
med a ẓll-ceremony
and f---- for the sake of
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Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Lines 2–3. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭlt ṭll rather than ʾẓlt ẓll. Line 5. Sima considers one more line. There is not traces of this line in the photograph. TRANSLATION Line 2. Sima does not translate the word s¹lḥ. Lines 2–3. ʾẓlt ẓll, Sima: '(she) covered one (?) subterranean water-channel'. Line 4. bʿd, Sima: 'in the direction of'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary
Line 3. The beginning of this line is squeezed in below the end of line 2. The text is unfinished.

Editio Princeps
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Technique
Incised
Direction of Script
Horizontal line right to left

Associated Drawings
It is to the right of a symbol
Associated Inscriptions
It is to the left of AH 092 and above U 088

  • [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 241–242 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
Deity, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Religion, Women
Old OCIANA ID
#0037763
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Updated 08 Jan, 2025 by OCIANA