U 056

Siglum
U 056
Transliteration
ʾmtbʿs¹mn bnt
----ḥyt ʾẓllt l-
ḏġbt b- {k}hl bʿd
{d}ṯʾ -h / f rḍ -h
OCIANA
Translation
ʾmtbʿs¹mn daughter of
----ḥyt performed for
Ḏġbt at {Khl} for the sake of
her {crops of the season of the later rains} and so favour her
OCIANA
Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Lines 3–4. Sima does not read the end of line 3 and the whole of line 4. TRANSLATION Lines 2–3. ʾẓllt, Sima: '(he) covered ----'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 20–22, for the place name Khl. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary
Line 2. The first letter is illegible. Line 3. The oblique stroke of the letter k is placed on the middle of the letter making it resemble the letter s¹.

Editio Princeps
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Technique
Incised
Direction of Script
Horizontal line right to left

  • 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
  • [U] Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 20 Plate 14a
Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Agriculture, Deity, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Place-name, Religion, Season, Women
Old OCIANA ID
#0033121
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