U 079

Siglum
U 079
Transliteration
----d----l
---- ʿ / ʿḏrʾl
ʾ[ẓ][l][l] h- ẓll / l- ḏġbt
f rḍ -h
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Translation
----d----l
----ʿ ʾḏrʿl
{performed] the ẓll-ceremony for Ḏġbt
and so favour him
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Language and Script
Dadanitic

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.

Editio Princeps
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Technique
Incised
Direction of Script
Horizontal line right to left

Associated Inscriptions
It is below U 075 and to the left of U 078

  • 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
  • [U] 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
Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Deity, Isolated Prayer, Religion
Old OCIANA ID
#0033131
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