Sigla: AH 111; Sima 1999: 44–45; Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 77  Script: Dadanitic  Language: Dadanitic

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Transliteration
1: zdlh
2: bn[/]t<<>>rf–
3: h s¹ṭ s¹ṭ
4: ḏʿmn
5: s¹nt/r{ṭ}

Translation
1: Zdlh
2: {son of} Trf–
3: h commanded the officer of
4: Ḏʿmn
5: Year {Rṭ}

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT
Line 3. Sima does not read the beginning of this line.
Line 5. Abū l-Ḥasan followed by Sima: s¹ntr---- for s¹nt r{ṭ}.

TRANSLATION
Line 3. s¹ṭ, Abū l-Ḥasan: 'what is offered in the local dialect of the inscriptions, or eminent person, authority, sultan (in Ḏʿmn)'.
Line 5. Sima does not translate this line.

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

Commentary
The name zdlh is usually a man's name but here is followed by bnt/rfh. Yet the following verb is in the masculine singular of the suffix conjugation. We therefore suggest that the author was a man and that the carver misplaced the word-divider in line 2 (oddly, the only one in the text) and that the line should have read bn/trfh.

The letters to the left of this inscription belong to another graffito ( AH 111.1).
The word s¹nt 'year' is not followed by a date, but by what is possibly a personal name.

Line 3. For s¹ṭ compare Arabic sawṭ, Hebrew šōṭ and Syrian sawṭ "a whip, a scourage". It is to consider here the expression in Classical Arabic: fulān yasūṭ al-ḥarb ‘such a one superintendents, manages or conducts, in person, the war’ (Lane 1863-1893: 1467a). It is clear that s¹ṭ refers to an ‘officer’ (‘someone who commands’). Given the paucity of examples in known inscriptions, however, it is hard to determine what kind of officer he was and what exactly the duties of such an officer were (Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 74).

Subjects
Genealogy Date (s1nt) Place-name

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 to the right of AH 109 and AH 111.1, to the left of AH 113 and above AH 110

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: 267–269 Plates: 14

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. Three Dadanitic inscriptions from al-·Uḏayb (oasis of al-ʿUlā) and the occurrence of the word s¹ṭ. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 27, 2016: 72–78 Pages: 77, fig. 4

Lane, E.W. An Arabic-English Lexicon, Derived from the Best and Most Copious Eastern Sources. (Volume 1 in 8 parts [all published]). London: Williams & Norgate, 1863-1893. Pages: 1467a

Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. Pages: 44–45

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