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AH 101

Text Information

Siglum
AH 101
Alternative Sigla
Sima 1999: 44
Transliteration
ʿyḏh/bnt mrʾ/ʾẓllt l- ḏġbt/h- ẓll f rḍ -h/w ʾṯb -h
Translation
ʿyḏh daughter of Mrʾ performed for Ḏġbt the ẓll-ceremony and so favour her and reward her

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 2. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭllt rather than ʾzllt. Line 3. Abū l-Ḥasan: h- ṭll for h- ẓll. TRANSLATION Lines 2–3: ʾẓllt l-ḏġbt h- ẓll, Sima: '(he) covered for Ḏġbt the subterranean water-channel'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.

Provenance
Al-ʿUḏayb (Jabal ʿIkmah)
Original Reading Credit
Sima 1999: 44
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Incised

Associated Drawings
It is to the left of a human drawing and a quadruped drawing, it may be a hunting scene.

  • 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 258–260 Plate 13
  • Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 44
  • 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, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Religion, Women
Script
Dadanitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0037769
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