U 120
Text Information
- Siglum
- U 120
- Transliteration
- ʿbd/ʿbdh/ bn/bḥmh ---- l- ḏġbt
- Translation
- ʿbd ʿbdh son of Bḥmh ---- for Ḏġbt
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- TEXT Line 1. Sima reads ʿbdʿbdh but there is a clear word-divider between ʿbd and ʿbdh. Line 2. Sima: bḥmm/ʾẓll for bḥmh ----, but the second m, the word-divider and ʾẓll cannot be seen on the photograph. 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
- OCIANA
- 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 32
- 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
- Script
- Dadanitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0033147
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