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U 114

Text Information

Siglum
U 114
Alternative Sigla
AH 174
Transliteration
zdlh bn/ʾs¹ʾl
Translation
Zdlh bn/ʾs¹ʾl

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 2. The n is very straight and Sima read it as a word-divider. However, the text makes more sense if it is read as a n.

Provenance
Al-ʿUḏayb (Jabal ʿIkmah). The inscription is chiselled on a rock inside the gorge
Original Reading Credit
Abū l-Ḥasan 1997: 341-342
Original Translation Credit
Abū l-Ḥasan 1997: 341-342

Technique
Incised

Associated Inscriptions
It is below U 175, to the left of AH 165 and above AH 167

  • 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 341–342 Plate 19
  • Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 31 Plate 26a
Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Dadanitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0033146
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