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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

U 113

Text Information

Siglum
U 113
Alternative Sigla
AH 161
Transliteration
hnʾ/ḏ ʿbds¹ʿr s²bʿn
Translation
Hnʾ of the lineage of ʿbds¹ʿr S²bʿn

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 1. Sima omits the last three letters, reading ḏ ʿbd rather than ḏ ʿbds¹ʿr. However, ʿbds¹ʿr is clear on the photograph.

Provenance
Al-ʿUḏayb (Jabal ʿIkmah). The inscription is chiselled on a rock inside the gorge
Original Reading Credit
Abū l-Ḥasan 1997: 329-330
Original Translation Credit
Abū l-Ḥasan 1997: 329-330

Technique
Incised

Associated Inscriptions
It is below AH 160, to the right of AH 159 and to the left AH 171

  • Abū ʾl-Ḥasan, Ḥ.ʿA.D. Qirāʾah li-kitābāt liḥyāniyyah min ǧabal ʿakmah bi-minṭaqat al-ʿulā. Al-Riyāḍ: Maktabat al-malik fahd al-waṭaniyyah, 1997. pp 329–330 Plate 18
  • Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 30 Plate 26b
Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Lineage
Script
Dadanitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0033145
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