OCIANA
Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

Private collection 2

Siglum
Private collection 2
Transliteration
ḥb{b}/bn mrʾqs¹ ʾdq/h- m– gmrt/l- ḏġbt/ f rḍ -h
Translation
{Ḥbb} son of Mrʾqs¹ dedicated the incense altar [or burner] for Ḏġbt and so favour him

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary
A text of six lines engraved on one face of a rectangular, pink sandstone incense altar or burner with chamfered corners. It is impossible to tell the size of the object from the excellent photograph because there is no scale.

Original Reading Credit
Macdonald (unpublished): 7-10
Original Translation Credit
Macdonald (unpublished): 7-10

Technique
Incised

  • 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, Religion
Script
Dadanitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0038642
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