AH 108

Siglum: AH 108
Alternative Sigla: Sima 1999: 44
Transliteration: ʿbdʿr/{s¹}lḥ/bdl b{n}/ʾnb ʾẓll/bʿd
Translation: ʿbdʿr {priest of} Bdl {son of} ʾnb performed the ẓll-ceremony for the sake of

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TEXT Line 1. Abū l-Ḥasan does not read the personal name Bdl; Sima does not read {s¹}lḥ bdl. Line 2. Sima: ʾ[l]b---- rather than ʾnb. Line 3. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭll rather than ʾẓll. TRANSLATION Line 1. Sima does not translate the word s¹lḥ. Line 3. ʾẓll bʿd, Sima: '(he) covered (the subterranean water-channel) in the direction of'.
Commentary: The text is incomplete, lacking the normal end of the narrative and the prayer. It was an unsuitable place to choose to carve such an inscription, and it may be that the carver was inexperienced. Line 1. The word s¹lḥ is always followed by the name of a divinity and then the narrative section. This is the only case, in which a personal name occurs after the word s¹lḥ. Bdl is as a personal name found in Safaitic. Line 3. The verb ʾẓll means "he performed the ẓll-ceremony", the exact nature of which we do not know. Usually, but not always, this verb is followed by the noun h-ẓll meaning "the ẓll-ceremony". Thus, ʾẓll and ʾẓll h-ẓll both mean "he performed the ẓll-ceremony".

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 265–266 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