U 079
Text Information
- Siglum
- U 079
- Transliteration
- ----d----l ---- ʿ/ʿḏrʾl ʾ[ẓ][l][l] h- ẓll/l- ḏġbt f rḍ -h
- Translation
- ----d----l ----ʿ ʾḏrʿl {performed] the ẓll-ceremony for Ḏġbt and so favour him
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- TEXT Lines 1–2. Sima does not read the first line and the beginning of the second. Only a few letters in these lines can be identified on the photograph. TRANSLATION Line 3. ʾ[ẓ][l][l] 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 the gorge
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Incised
- Associated Inscriptions
- It is below U 075 and to the left of U 078
- Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 24–25 Plate 18a, 18b, 19a, 28a
- 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, Isolated Prayer, Religion
- Script
- Dadanitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0033131
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