U 050
Text Information
- 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
- Technique
- In relief
- Associated Inscriptions
- It is to the left of U 049
- 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
- Site
- The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Deity, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Place-name, Religion
- Script
- Dadanitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0033116
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