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AH 163

Text Information

Siglum
AH 163
Alternative Sigla
Sima 1999: 46–47
Transliteration
ḥzn/bnt/gzʾ ʾẓllt/b- khl/b– ʿd/ḏ- kn/l- -h[/]b- dbr/f rḍ -h/w ʾḫrt -h
Translation
Ḥzn daughter of Gzʾ performed the ẓll-ceremony at Khl for the sake of what belongs to her in {Bdr} and so favour her and her posterity

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 2. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭllt rather than ʾẓllt. TRANSLATION Line 2. ʾẓllt, Sima: "covered (the subterranean water-channel)'; b- khl, Abū l-Ḥasan: 'in the month Khl'; Sima: 'by her abilities'. Lines 2–3. bʿd, Sima: 'in the direction of'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 15–16, 20–22, for the place names Bdr and Khl.
Commentary
Line 4. The inscriber carved dbr instead of bdr.

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

Technique
Incised

Associated Inscriptions
It is below AH 151 and to the left U 118

  • 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 332–333 Plate 19
  • Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 46–47
  • Hidalgo-Chacón Díez, M. del C. Place names in the Dadanitic inscriptions of al-ʿUḏayb. Adumatu 30, 2014: 15-30
Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Place-name, Religion, Women
Script
Dadanitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0037783
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