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AH 009.1

Text Information

Siglum
AH 009.1
Transliteration
bs²klbt ---- [ʾ]ṭll h- ṭll ---- b- khl l- ḏġbt/bʿd/ḏ- kn [l-] [-h] {b-} b{d}{r}/f rḍ [-h]/w [ʾ]ḫ[r]t -h
Translation
Bs²klbt ---- {performed} the ṭll-ceremony ---- at Khl for Ḏġbt for the sake of what is {his} {in} {Bdr} and so favour {him} and his {posterity}

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 15–16, 20–22, for the place names B{d}{r} and Khl. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary
This graffito is very close to AH 009, but was not recorded by Abū l-Ḥasan (1997). Lines 1–2. Note that the common expression ʾẓll h- ẓll is here written with ṭ rather than ẓ. Compare U 48 where ʾẓlt is written ʾṭlt.

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

Technique
Incised

  • 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.
  • 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, Isolated Prayer, Place-name, Religion
Script
Dadanitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0038134
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