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AH 141

Text Information

Siglum
AH 141
Alternative Sigla
Sima 1999: 46
Transliteration
gzʾ/bn/ʾbg{l} ʾẓll/l- ḏġbt bʿd/ml -h b- ṯqmm[/]w b[n–] ʾl/f rḍ -h/w s¹ʿd -h/w ʾṯb -h
Translation
Gzʾ son of {ʾbgl} performed the ẓll-ceremony for Ḏġbt for the sake of his property in Tqmm and {Bn– ʾl} and so favour him and help him and reward him

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 1. Sima: ʾbgr for ʾbgl. Line 2. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭll rather than ʾẓll. Lines 4–5. Abū l-Ḥasan followed by Sima: w b- nʾl rather than w b[n]ʾl. TRANSLATION Line 2. ʾẓll, Sima: '(he) covered (the subterranean water-channel)'. Line 3. bʿd, Sima: 'in the direction of'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 18, for the place name Tqmm and p. 17 for [B][n]ʾl. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary
Line 2. 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".

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

Technique
Incised

Associated Signs
Cartouche
Associated Inscriptions
It is to the right of AH 140, to the left of U 049 and above AH 100 and AH 142

  • 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 305–307 Plate 17
  • Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 46
  • 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
#0037781
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