AH 141

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
OCIANA
Translation: By -h son of 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
OCIANA
Language and Script: Dadanitic

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".

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

[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 305–307 Plate 17
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 46

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