Sigla: AH 096; Sima 1999: 43  Script: Dadanitic

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Transliteration
1: whblh/bn/zdʿzy/ʾẓll
2: h- ẓll/b- khl/l- ḏġbt
3: bʿd/nḫl -h/b- tqmm/f rḍ -h–
4: m/w s¹ʿd -h{m}

Translation
1: Whblh son of Zdʿzy performed
2: the ẓll-ceremony at Khl for Ḏġbt
3: for the sake of his palm trees in Tqmm and so favour them
4: and help {them}

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT
Lines 1–2. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭ[ll] h- ṭll rather than ʾẓll h- ẓll.

TRANSLATION
Lines 1–2. ʾẓll h- ẓll, Sima: '(he) covered the subterranean water-channel'.
Line 2. b- khl, Abū l-Ḥasan: 'in the month Khl'; Sima: 'by his abilities'.
Line 3. bʿd, Sima: 'in the direction of'.

DISCUSSION
Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 18, 20–22, for the place names Tqmm and Khl.
Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.

Commentary
Line 1. This line is not aligned with those below it. It is clear from that that the mason forgot to incise the letters ll at the end of this line and added them later in the space left on the left side.
Lines 3–4. The use of the masculine plural enclitic pronoun in the last two lines is inexplicable and contrasts with the masculine singular enclitic pronoun after nḫl.

Subjects
Agriculture Deity Genealogy Place-name Prayer Religion

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 Signs: Cartouche
Associated Inscriptions: It is below AH 097, to the left of U 071 and above AH 095

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: 247–249 Plates: 12

Hidalgo-Chacón Díez, M. del C. Place names in the Dadanitic inscriptions of al-ʿUḏayb. Adumatu 30, 2014: 15-30 Pages: 18, 20–22

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: 43

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