U 058
Text Information
- Siglum
- U 058
- Transliteration
- ʿyḏ/bn/ydʿ ʾẓll/h- ẓll {b-} khl/l- ḏġ– bt/bʿd/{n}ḫl -h w dṯʾ -h b- bdr f r{ḍ} -h w ʾḫrt -h
- Translation
- ʿyḏ son of Ydʿ performed the ẓll-ceremony {at} Khl for Ḏġ– bt for the sake of his {palm trees} and his crops of the season of the later rains in Bdr and so {favour} him and his posterity
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- TEXT Line 1. Sima reads the first personal name as bʿyḏ. While it is true that what could be a faint b can be seen on the photograph, to take it as part of the inscription would mean that the first line would not be aligned with others, which are well aligned. Moreover, the same genealogy, ʿyḏ bn ydʿ, recurs in U 033/1. TRANSLATION Lines 2–5. Sima: '(he) covered the subterranean water-channel by his abilities for Ḏġbt in the direction of his palm garden and his spring field in Bdr'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 15–16, 20–22, for the place names Bdr and Khl.
- 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 left of U 057
- Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 20–21 Plate 14b
- Hidalgo-Chacón Díez, M. del C. Place names in the Dadanitic inscriptions of al-ʿUḏayb. Adumatu 30, 2014: 15-30
- 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
- Script
- Dadanitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0033123
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