AH 120

Siglum
AH 120
Alternative Sigla
Sima 1999: 45
Transliteration
ʿbd / bn
rmh / s¹l-
ḥ / ḏġb-
t / ʾẓll / b-
ʿd / ml / kn / [l-]
-h / b- bdr / l- ḏġbt
f rḍ -hmy
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Translation
By -hmy son of ʿbd son of
Rmh priest
of Ḏġb-
t performed the ẓll-ceremony for
the sake of a property that belongs {to}
him in Bdr for Ḏġbt
and so favour them both
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Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 4. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭll rather than ʾẓll. Line 6. Abū l-Ḥasan does not read ḏġbt. TRANSLATION Lines 2–3. Sima does not translate the word s¹lḥ. Lines 3–4. ʾẓll, Sima: '(he) covered (the subterranean water-channel)'. Line 5. bʿd, Sima: 'in the direction of'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 15–16, for the place name Bdr. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary
Line 4. 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". The syntax is awkward and normally l- ḏġbt would follow immediately after ʾẓll. Line 6. The word ḏġbt appears to have been added on the adjoining rock face. Line 7. The use of the 3rd person dual pronominal suffix -hmy is strange given that the verb, ʾẓll, is in the singular. It is possible that the author meant to include his father in the blessing, or it may simply be a mistake.

Editio Princeps
Sima 1999: 45

Technique
Incised
Direction of Script
Horizontal line right to left

Associated Drawings
It is to the left of a wasm and a drawing
Associated Inscriptions
It is to the right of AH 116 and AH 117, to the left of AH 122 and above AH 119

  • [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 278–280 Plate 14
  • 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
Old OCIANA ID
#0037777
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