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U 060

Text Information

Siglum
U 060
Transliteration
----/bn ḥlʿm/ḏ ʾh{l}---- ʾẓll/h- ẓll l- ḏġbt/f rḍ -h/w [ʾ]{ḫ}{r}{t} -h
Translation
---- son of Ḥlʿm of the lineage of {ʾhl} performed the ẓll-ceremony for Ḏġbt and so favour him and his {posterity}

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TRANSLATION Line 3. ʾẓll h- ẓll, Sima: '(he) covered the water-channel'. DISCUSSION 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
Sima 1999: 21
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 21 Plate 15b
  • 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, Lineage, Religion
Script
Dadanitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0033124
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