AH 109

Siglum
AH 109
Alternative Sigla
Sima 1999: 44
Transliteration
ʿbdʿs¹
bn / ʾnb
ʾgw / h- ẓll
bʿd[ / ]ṯr / mr----
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Translation
ʿbdʿs¹
son of ʾnb
organized the ẓll-ceremony
for the sake of [what he has in] Ṯr mr----
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Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEX Line 1. Abū l-Ḥasan followed by Sima: ʿbdʿ[l] for ʿbdʿs¹. Line 2. Sima: ʾ[l]b rather than ʾnb. Line 3. Abū l-Ḥasan: h- ṭll for h- ẓll. TRANSLATION Line 3. ʾgw, Abū l-Ḥasan: '(he) offered'; ʾgw h- ẓll, Sima: '(he) cleared out the subterranean water-channel'. Line 4. bʿd, Sima: 'in the direction of'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 18, for the place name Ṯr.
Commentary
Line 3. The reading of the letter ẓ as ṭ should not be excluded. Line 4. We cannot offer an interpretation of the last word.

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 108 and to the left of AH 110 and AH 111

  • [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 266–267 Plate 14
  • Hidalgo-Chacón Díez, M. del C. Place names in the Dadanitic inscriptions of al-ʿUḏayb. Adumatu 30, 2014: 15-30
  • [U] Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 44
Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Place-name, Religion
Old OCIANA ID
#0037772
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Updated 08 Jan, 2025 by OCIANA