AH 022

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary: Abū l-Ḥasan (1997: 103) and Farès-Drappeau (2005: 218) both read the name as ḥb and take the s¹ as part of s¹lḥ. However, on the photograph there is a clear word divider after the s¹. So the name must be ḥbs¹ and the s¹ of s¹lh must be lost in the damage after the word-divider. The ġ and the b of ḏ-ġbt can be made out on the photograph and the t is clear. The reason for treating this as a separate inscription from AH 023 (following Abū l-Ḥasan and Farès-Drappeau, but contra Sima 1999: 17, U 042) is that the latter text makes more sense without this one.

Associated Inscriptions: It is to the right of U 041 and immediately above AH 023 (= U 042, lines 3-10)

[AH] 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 103 Plate 3
[D] 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 218
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
[U] Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 17 Plate 9a, 10a, 11a

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