AH 199
Text Information
- Siglum
- AH 199
- Alternative Sigla
- D 162; Farès 2009: 184, no. 2
- Transliteration
- s¹mwh/bnt/s¹mr/s¹lḥt/w– d/w zyd/bʿl -h/ḏ- yfʿn/ʾ– ẓllh/l- ḏġbt/h- ẓll/b- h- mṣ– d/f rḍ -hmy/w s¹ʿd -hmy/w ----
- Translation
- S¹mwh daughter of S¹mr, priestess of W – d and Zyd her husband of the lineage of Yfʿn both per- formed for Ḏġbt the ẓll-ceremony at the top of the mount– ain and so favour them both and help them both and
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- TEXT Lines 2–3. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭllh rather than ʾẓllh. Line 3. Abū l-Ḥasan: h- ṭll for h- ẓll. TRANSLATION Line 2. bʿl -h, Abū l-Ḥasan: 'her husband'; Farès: 'the two lords'. Lines 2–3. ʾẓllh l- ḏġbt h- ẓll, Farès: '(they) offered to Ḏġbt these sacrifices'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
- Commentary
- Note that the verb ʾẓllh is in the dual as are the enclitic personal pronouns -hmy in the last line. The isolated w at the end of the text would seem to be another of the possibly apotropaic letters, such as ḏ and b, used to end texts in Dadanitic. In this case, it may be an abbreviation of the divine name Wd whose priestess S¹mwh was. It is interesting to note a priestess of the Minaean god Wd performing ceremonies for the Dadanite deity Ḏġbt. See JSLih 49 for a similar example.
- Provenance
- Jabal Umm Daraǧ
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- In relief
- Abū ʾl-Ḥasan, Ḥ.ʿA.D. Nuqūš liḥyānīyah min minṭaqat al-ʿulā. (Dirāsah taḥlīliyyah muqāranah). al-Riyāḍ: Wizārat al-maʿārif, 2002. pp 43–45
- Farès-Drappeau, S. Dédan et Liḥyān. Histoire des Arabes aux confins des pouvoirs perse et hellénistique (IVe–IIe s. avant l'ère chrétienne). (Travaux de la maison de l'Orient, 42). Lyon: Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée — Jean Pouilloux, 2005. pp 228–229 Plate XXXI
- Farès, S. Les femmes prêtresses dans les religions arabes préislamiques. Le cas des Liḥyanites. Pages 183-195 in F. Briquel-Chatonnet, S. Farès, B. Lion & C. Michel (eds), Femmes, cultures et sociétés dans les civilisations méditeranéennes et proche-orientales de l'Antiquité. (Topoi Supplément, 10). Paris: Gabalda. Lyon: Maison de l'Orient Meditérranée, 2009.
- 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, Lineage, Place-name, Religion, Women
- Script
- Dadanitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0037786
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