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Siglum
Private collection 1
Transliteration
ʾby / bn / ḥr
h- nfy / ʾfy / h- ẓ-
ll / hm -ḏ / nḏr / ʾ-
b -h / l- ḏġbt / b- h-
mṣd / f rḍ -h / w ʾḫ-
rt -h / w s¹ʿd -h / s¹nt / ʾ-
ḥdy
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Translation
By / son of / ʾby son of Ḥr
the Nfite accomplished the ẓ-
ll-ceremony in accordance with what his father
has vowed for Ḏġbt on the
high [red] mountain and so favour him and his des-
cendants and help him year
one
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Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary
An inscription carved in relief on slab of pink sandstone. In Classical Arabic (Lane 1863-1893: 2719b), the word maṣad means, among other things "a mountain top", or "a place of refuge". On the other hand, Abū l-Ḥasan (2002: 36–37) translates it as 'the high red mountain'.

Editio Princeps
Macdonald (unpublished): 1-7

Technique
In relief
Direction of Script
Horizontal line right to left

  • [AH] Abū ʾl-Ḥasan, Ḥ.ʿA.D. Nuqūš liḥyānīyah min minṭaqat al-ʿulā. (Dirāsah taḥlīliyyah muqāranah). al-Riyāḍ: Wizārat al-maʿārif, 2002. pp 36–37
  • 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
  • [Lane] Lane, E.W. An Arabic-English Lexicon, Derived from the Best and Most Copious Eastern Sources. (Volume 1 in 8 parts [all published]). London: Williams & Norgate, 1863-1893.
Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Date (s¹nt), Deity, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Relatives, Religion, Topographic features
Old OCIANA ID
#0038641
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