Sigla: AH 006; Sima 1999: 36; D 139  Script: Dadanitic

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Transliteration
1: s¹s¹n/s¹lḥt/ḏġbt
2: ʾgt/h- ẓll
3: bʿd/nḫl [-h]/b- ḏʿmn
4: f rḍ -h/w s¹ʿd -h
5: w ʾṯb -h/w ʾḫrt -h

Translation
1: S¹s¹n priestess of ḏ-ġbt
2: organized the ẓll-ceremony
3: for the sake of {her} palm trees in Ḏʿmn
4: and so favour her and help her
5: and reward her and her posterity

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT
Line 2. Abū l-Ḥasan: h- ṭll for h- ẓll.
Line 3. Abū l-Ḥasan followed by Farès-Drappeau does not restore the pronoun [-h] after nḫl.
Line 5. Abū l-Ḥasan does not consider the pronoun -h after ʾḫrt.

TRANSLATION
Line 1. Sima does not translate the word s¹lḥt.
Line 2. ʾgt, Abū l-Ḥasan: '(she) offered'; ʾgt h- ẓll, Sima: '(she) cleared out the subterranean water-channel'; Farès-Drappeau: '(she) brought the sacrifice'.
Line 3. bʿd, Sima: 'in the direction of'; Farès-Drappeau: 'on behalf of'.
Line 5. ʾḫrt -h, Farès-Drappeau: 'he has guided her'.

DISCUSSION
Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 19–20, for the place name Ḏʿmn.
Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.

Commentary
Line 1. The t of the word s¹lḥt was originally omitted and subsequently added above the line.

Subjects
Agriculture Deity Place-name Prayer Religion Women

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)
Associated Inscriptions: It is below AH 007

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: 72–74 Plates: 1

[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: 214

Hidalgo-Chacón Díez, M. del C. Place names in the Dadanitic inscriptions of al-ʿUḏayb. Adumatu 30, 2014: 15-30 Pages: 19–20

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: 36

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