U 045.1
Text Information
- Siglum
- U 045.1
- Transliteration
- w---- bn hʾgy {l}n{ṯ}k/{b}- tʿ----
- Translation
- w---- son of Hmʾy {Lnṯk} b- tʿ----
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- TEXT Line 1. Sima does not read any letter. Line 2. Sima: ----ʾmy ----{h} {ʾ}{t}{ʾ} rather than bn hmʾy {l}n{ṯ}k/b- tʿ----. TRANSLATION Sima does not translate this inscription.
- Commentary
- Sima reads U 045.1 and U 045.2 as one text but it is clear from the photograph that they are two different graffiti.
- Provenance
- Al-ʿUḏayb (Jabal ʿIkmah). The inscription is incised on one side of the huge rock, which Stiehl (1971: 4) called 'Block C'
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Incised
- Associated Signs
- A sign at the end of line 1 and a later wasm
- Associated Inscriptions
- Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 18 Plate 11b
- Stiehl, R. Neue liḥyānische Inschriften aus al-ʿUḏaib I mit einem Nachtrag M. Höfners. Pages 3-40, 565-566, 569-594, pl. 1-45 in F. Altheim and R. Stiehl (eds), Christentum am Roten Meer. 1. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1971. p 4
- Site
- The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Dadanitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0033114
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