AH 096

Siglum
AH 096
Alternative Sigla
Sima 1999: 43
Transliteration
whblh / bn / zdʿzy / ʾẓll
h- ẓll / b- khl / l- ḏġbt
bʿd / nḫl -h / b- tqmm / f rḍ -h-
m / w s¹ʿd -h{m}
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Translation
By / son of / Whblh son of Zdʿzy performed
the ẓll-ceremony at Khl for Ḏġbt
for the sake of his palm trees in Tqmm and so favour them
and help {them}
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Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Lines 1–2. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭ[ll] h- ṭll rather than ʾẓll h- ẓll. TRANSLATION Lines 1–2. ʾẓll h- ẓll, Sima: '(he) covered the subterranean water-channel'. Line 2. b- khl, Abū l-Ḥasan: 'in the month Khl'; Sima: 'by his abilities'. Line 3. bʿd, Sima: 'in the direction of'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 18, 20–22, for the place names Tqmm and Khl. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary
Line 1. This line is not aligned with those below it. It is clear from that that the mason forgot to incise the letters ll at the end of this line and added them later in the space left on the left side. Lines 3–4. The use of the masculine plural enclitic pronoun in the last two lines is inexplicable and contrasts with the masculine singular enclitic pronoun after nḫl.

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

Associated Signs
Cartouche
Associated Inscriptions
It is below AH 097, to the left of U 071 and above AH 095

  • [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 247–249 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
Agriculture, Deity, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Place-name, Religion
Old OCIANA ID
#0037766
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Updated 08 Jan, 2025 by OCIANA