AH 092

Siglum
AH 092
Alternative Sigla
Sima 1999: 43
Transliteration
mrʾh / ʾlmh
---- gzn / ʾẓll
l- ḏġ[b]t / h- ẓ-
ll / ----ys¹---- ẓ-
ll / [b-] ḏʿmn
f rḍ h
OCIANA
Translation
Mrʾh ʾlmh
---- gzn performed
for {Ḏġbt} the ẓll-cere-
mony ----ys¹---- ẓll-cere-
mony {in} Ḏʿmn
and so favour him
OCIANA
Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 2. Abū l-Ḥasan: ḏmzn rather than ----gzn; Sima: ----m[l]n rather than ----gzn; Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭll rather than ʾẓll. Lines 3–4. Abū l-Ḥasan: h- ṭll rather than h- ẓll. Line 4. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾy s¹ for ----ys¹----; Sima: ʾy[l] for ----ys¹----. TRANSLATION Line 1. Abū l-Ḥasan: 'Mrʾh [son of] ʾlmh'. Lines 2–4 ʾẓll l- ḏġbt h- ẓll, Sima: '(he) covered for Ḏġ[b]t the subterranean water-channel'. Lines 4-5. Sima does not translate the word ẓll. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 19–20, for the place name Ḏʿmn. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary
Line 4. This line cannot be read clearly on the photograph.

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

Associated Inscriptions
It is to the right of AH 091 and above U 087

  • [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 242–244 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 43
Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Deity, Isolated Prayer, Place-name, Religion
Old OCIANA ID
#0037764
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