AH 125

Siglum: AH 125
Transliteration: nfl<<>>t / bn mʿd
s¹bnh ----l
ʾẓll / {h-} [ẓ]ll
ʿl- m- kn / l- -h / l- ḏġb[t]
b- bdr / f r{ḍ}
-h / {w} {ʾ}ṯb {-h}
OCIANA
Translation: By / son of Mʿd Nflt son of mʿd
S¹bnh ----l
performed {the} {ẓll-ceremony}
for what belongs to him to {Ḏġbt}
in Bdr and so {favour}
him {and} {reward} {him}
OCIANA
Language and Script: Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TEXT Line 1. Abū l-Ḥasan: rfl t for nfl t. Line 2. Abū l-Ḥasan: s¹b h for s¹bnh ----l. Line 3. Abū l-Ḥasan: ----ṭll [b-] khl rather than ʾẓll {h-} [ẓ]ll. Line 4. Abū l-Ḥasan does not read ḏġb[t] at the end of this line. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 15–16, for the place name Bdr. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary: The inscription is very carelessly incised, and so is difficult to interpret at some points. The lines are not aligned on the left side and there are several letters, both within and outside the cartouche on that side, which belong to another graffito (AH 125.1). There is a vertical line between the l and the t of the first name which appears to have been carved in error.

Associated Signs: Cartouche
Associated Drawings: There is a large drawing of a human to the left of the text and a smaller stick figure of a human with a sword (?) at his belt, on the right.
Associated Inscriptions: It is to the right of U 065, to the left of AH 122 and above U 064

[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 285–287 Plate 15
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

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