AH 119

Siglum
AH 119
Alternative Sigla
Sima 1999: 45
Transliteration
ṯblh / bnt
ʿlw / ʾẓlt / l-
ḏġbt / ʾ- ẓll
ḏh / b- khl / f rḍ -h
w ʾḫrt -h
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Translation
By / son of Ṯblh daughter of
ʿlw performed for
Ḏġbt this ẓll-ceremony
at Khl and so favour her
and her posterity
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Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 2. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭlt rather than ʾẓlt. Line 3. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭll for ʾẓll. Line 4. Sima thinks that the occurrence of ʾẓll instead of hẓll it may be a mason's mistake TRANSLATION Lines 2–4. ʾzlt l-ḏġbt ʾẓll ḏh, Sima: '(she) covered this subterranean water-channel for Ḏġbt'. Line 4. b- khl, Abū l-Ḥasan: 'in the month Khl'; Sima: 'by her abilities'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 20–22, for the place name Khl. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary
The use of ʾ- instead instead of h- as the definite article in line 4, is unlikely to be a mistake on the part of the carver, as suggested by Sima, but instead is probably an alternative form of the definite article, as in Safaitic, see Al-Jallad 2015: 16–17. Other examples can be found in AH 138 and JSLih 276.

Editio Princeps
Sima 1999: 45

Technique
Incised
Direction of Script
Horizontal line right to left

Associated Inscriptions
It is to below AH 120 and AH 122 and to the left of AH 121

  • [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 277–278 Plate 14
  • Al-Jallad, A. An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions. (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 80). Leiden: Brill, 2015.
  • 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
  • [U] Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 45
Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Deity, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Place-name, Religion, Women
Old OCIANA ID
#0037776
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