U 050

Siglum: U 050
Transliteration: s¹my/bn/tlġl ʾẓll/l- ḏġbt/ṯl– ṯt/ʾẓlt/ʿly-/{ḏ-} kn {l-} -h/b- bdr/f r{ḍ} -h/w {s¹}ʿ– d -h
Translation: S¹my son of Tlġl performed for Ḏġbt three ẓll-ceremonies for {what} belongs {to} him in Bdr and so f{avour} him and {help} him

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TEXT Line 3. Sima: ʾẓl bʿd---- rather than ʾẓlt ʿly {ḏ} -kn. Line 4. Sima does not read the beginning of this line. TRANSLATION Lines 2–3. ʾẓll l- ḏġbt ṯlṯt ʾẓlt, Sima: '(he) covered for Ḏġbt three water-channels'. DISCUSSION Macdonald 2004: 521–522 §4.4.1. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 15–16, for the place name Bdr. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.

Provenance: Al-ʿUḏayb (Jabal ʿIkmah). The inscription is chiselled on a rock inside the gorge
Original Reading Credit: OCIANA
Original Translation Credit: OCIANA

Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 19 Plate 13a, 13b
Macdonald, M.C.A. Ancient North Arabian. Pages 488-533 in R.D. Woodard (ed.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Hidalgo-Chacón Díez, M. del C. Place names in the Dadanitic inscriptions of al-ʿUḏayb. Adumatu 30, 2014: 15-30
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