Sigla: AH 001; Sima 1999: 35–36; D 134  Script: Dadanitic  Language: Dadanitic

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Transliteration
1: bn[w]d/w whbʾm/w ʿ–
2: wd/w lbʾn/bnw
3: s¹ʿdʾl/ḏ yfʿn/ʾẓ–
4: llw/ẓll/h- nq/l-
5: ḏġbt/f rḍ -hm

Translation
1: {Bnwd} and Whbʾm and ʿ–
2: wd and Lbʾn sons of
3: S¹ʿdʾl of the lineage of Yfʿn per–
4: formed the ẓll-ceremony on the top on the mountain for
5: Ḏġbt and so favour them

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT
Line 1: Abū l-Ḥasan followed by Farès-Drappeau: bnd w rather than bn[w]d; Sima: w-ʿtbʾm rather than w- whbʾm. The latter is clear on the photograph, although the h is slightly damaged and was copied and read as t by Abū l-Ḥasan.
Line 2: Abū l-Ḥasan: wm for wd; Sima: wg for wd.
Lines 3–4. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭllw ṭll for ʾẓllw ẓll.

TRANSLATION
Lines 3–4. ʾẓllw h- ẓll, Sima: 'they covered ????'; Farès-Drappeau: '(they) offered the sacrifice'.
Line 4: h- nq, Abū l-Ḥasan: 'the female camels'; Sima does not translate it; Farès-Drappeau: 'the female camel'.

DISCUSSION
Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.

Commentary
The restored [w] in the first personal name is based on the existence of the personal name Bnwd in the inscription AH 011/1. A root bnd has not been found in Semitic (Cohen et al. 1970–: 71). The translation of the construct phrase ẓll h-nq is based here and in other texts on interpreting h-nq either as a place name or as a common noun from the Arabic word nīq ‘mountain-top’. Given that the inscriptions mentioning h-nq are located on the way up Ǧabal ʿIkmah or at the top of Ǧabal Umm Daraǧ, it seems unlikely that they would be recording the sacrifice of female camels (nāq or nūq), as suggested by Abū l-Ḥasan and Farès-Drappeau (see the apparatus criticus).

Subjects
Genealogy Lineage Religion Deity Prayer Topographic features

Country: Saudi Arabia
Region: Al-Madīnah
Site: Oasis of al-ʿUlā
Latitude: 26.616667
Longitude: 37.916667
Present Location: In situ
Notes: Al-ʿUḏayb (Ǧabal ʿIkmah)

References:
[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. Pages: 53–61 Plates: 1

Cohen, D., Bron, F., Lonnet, A. Dictionnaire des racines sémitiques: ou attestées dans les langues sémitiques: comprenant un fichier comparatif de Jean Cantineau. Paris: Mouton (fascs. 1-2) / Leuven: Peeters (fascs 3–), 1970–. Pages: 71

[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. Pages: 212

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 Pages: 128

Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. Pages: 35–36

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