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AH 113

Text Information

Siglum
AH 113
Alternative Sigla
Sima 1999: 45
Transliteration
b{ḫ}l/bn/ʿbd– ḫrg/ʾgw b- k– hl/l- ḏġbt f rḍ -h/w ʾḫrt -h
Translation
{Bḫl} son of ʿbd– ḫrg organized [the ẓll-ceremony] at K– hl for Ḏġbt and so favour him and his posterity

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 1. Abū l-Ḥasan: b{n}l for b{l}l. TRANSLATION Line 2. ʾgw b- khl, Abū l-Ḥasan: '(he) offered in the month Khl'; Sima: '(he) covered (the subterranean water-channel) 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.
Commentary
Line 1: The second letter looks like a carelessly carved ḫ (compare the example at the beginning of line 2). Line 2. The carver misplaced the word-divider before the w rather than after it, thus ʾg/w b- khl for ʾgw/b- khl

Provenance
Al-ʿUḏayb (Jabal ʿIkmah)
Original Reading Credit
Sima 1999: 45
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Incised

Associated Drawings
A stick figure man with a sword at his waist immediately to the left of the text
Associated Inscriptions
It is to the right of AH 111, to the left of AH 115 and above AH 112

  • 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 270–272 Plate 14
  • Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 45
  • 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, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Place-name, Religion
Script
Dadanitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0037775
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