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AH 109

Text Information

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

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.

Provenance
Al-ʿUḏayb (Jabal ʿIkmah)
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Incised

Associated Inscriptions
It is to the right of AH 108 and to the left of AH 110 and AH 111

  • 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
  • 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. Place names in the Dadanitic inscriptions of al-ʿUḏayb. Adumatu 30, 2014: 15-30
Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Place-name, Religion
Script
Dadanitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0037772
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