Siglum: AH 202  Script: Dadanitic

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Transliteration
1: gd/bn/ṣbḥ/ʾgw/h- ẓll/b- {m}ṣ–
2: d/hm -ḏ/tr{k}----/f rḍ -h
3: w ʾḫrt -h/s¹nt/ʾrbʿn/w ʾ<ḥ>d–
4: y/hnʾs¹/mlk/lḥyn

Translation
1: Gd son of Ṣbḥ organized the ẓll-ceremony at the {top of the [red] mountain}
2: in accordance with what {trk} ---- and so favour him
3: and his posterity. In the year forty-one
4: of Hnʾs¹ king of Lḥyn

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT
Line 1: Abū l-Ḥasan: md for gd and Abū l-Ḥasan: h- ṭll rather than h- ẓll.
Line 2. Abū l-Ḥasan: trk----t rather than tr{k}----.

TRANSLATION
Line 1. ʾgw, Abū l-Ḥasan: '(he) offered'.
Line 2. hm -ḏ trk, Abū l-Ḥasan: 'since he left'.

DISCUSSION
Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2009: 613.

Commentary
Line 4. Author's mistake: ʾḫdy rather than ʾḥdy.

The inscription is badly incised. Some letters in line 3 cannot be read clearly.
On the right side of line 4 are incised three Minaic letters ʾ l n.

Subjects
Genealogy Prayer Date (s1nt) Religion Topographic features Historical

Country: Saudi Arabia
Region: Al-Madīnah
Site: Oasis of al-ʿUlā
Latitude: 26.616667
Longitude: 37.916667
Present Location: In situ
Notes: Ǧabal Umm Daraǧ
Associated Inscriptions: Three Minaic letters are carved in the bottom right-hand corner of the block

References:
[AH] Abū ʾl-Ḥasan, Ḥ.ʿA.D. Nuqūš liḥyānīyah min minṭaqat al-ʿulā. (Dirāsah taḥlīliyyah muqāranah). al-Riyāḍ: Wizārat al-maʿārif, 2002. Pages: 50–52

Hidalgo-Chacón Díez, M. del C. [Review of: Abū ʾl-Ḥasan, Ḥ.ʿA.D., Nuqūš liḥyānīya min minṭaqat al-῾Ulā: dirāsa taḥlīlīya muqārana. Al-Riyāḍ: Wizārat al-ma῾ārif wakālat al-wizāra li-l-āṯār wa-ʾl-matāḥif, 1423 h./2002 m]. Journal of Semitic Studies 54, 2009: 611–613 Pages: 613

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