OCIANA
Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

U 057

Text Information

Siglum
U 057
Transliteration
[----] ---- bʿd {n}{ḫ}l -h ---- f rḍ -h w ʾḫrt -h
Translation
---- ---- for the sake of his/her {palm trees} ---- and so favour him/her and his/her posterity

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
The line numbers below refer to the OCIANA reading not that of Sima. TEXT Line 1. Sima: dṯʾ -h for {n}{ḫ}l -h. Line 2. Sima: b- t[qmm] for f rḍ -h.
Commentary
The first line is incised to the right of line 6 of U 058. The rock face is very damaged making several letters on the right side illegible. The lines are not aligned on the left side.

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

Associated Inscriptions
It is to the right of U 058

  • Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 20 Plate 14b
Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Agriculture, Isolated Prayer, Religion
Script
Dadanitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0033122
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