U 056
Text Information
- Siglum
- U 056
- Transliteration
- ʾmtbʿs¹mn bnt ----ḥyt ʾẓllt l- ḏġbt b- {k}hl bʿd {d}ṯʾ -h/f rḍ -h
- 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
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.
- Provenance
- Al-ʿUḏayb (Jabal ʿIkmah). The inscription is chiselled on a rock inside the gorge
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Incised
- 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
- 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
- Agriculture, Deity, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Place-name, Religion, Season, Women
- Script
- Dadanitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0033121
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