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AH 097

Text Information

Siglum
AH 097
Alternative Sigla
Sima 1999: 43
Transliteration
ʿbdnnyh/s¹lḥ/ḏ– ġbt/ʾẓll/h- ẓ– ll/b- khl/l- ḏġ– bt/f rḍ -h/w s¹ʿd -h
Translation
ʿbdnnyh priest of Ḏ– ġbt performed the ẓ– ll-ceremony at Khl for Ḏġ– bt and so favour him and help him

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Lines 2–3. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭll h- ṭll rather than ʾẓll h- ẓll. TRANSLATION Line 1. Sima does not translate the word s¹lḥ. Lines 2–3. ʾẓll h- ẓll, Sima: '(he) covered the subterranean water-channel'. Line 3. b- khl, Abū l-Ḥasan: 'in the month Khl'; Sima: 'by his abilities'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 20–22, for the place name Khl. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.

Provenance
Al-ʿUḏayb (Jabal ʿIkmah)
Original Reading Credit
Sima 1999: 43
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Incised

Associated Inscriptions
It is above AH 096

  • 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 249–250 Plate 12
  • Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 43
  • 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
Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Deity, Isolated Prayer, Place-name, Religion
Script
Dadanitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0037767
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