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U 102bis

Text Information

Siglum
U 102bis
Transliteration
ʿ{y}ḏ/bn/{ḥ}r/ʾẓll/h- ẓll l- ḏġbt/b- khl/bʿd -h/w bʿd ʾ----/b- bdr/f rḍ -h {w} ʾḫrt -{h}
Translation
{ʿyḏ} son of {Ḥr} performed the ẓll-ceremony for Ḏġbt at Khl for the sake of him and for the sake of ʾ---- at Bdr and so favour him {and} {his} posterity

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 1. Sima does not read the beginning of this line. Line 4. Sima does not read this line. TRANSLATION Lines 1–2. ʾẓll h- ẓll, Sima: '---- (he) covered the water-channel'. Line 2. b- khl bʿd -h w bʿd, Sima: 'by his abilities in the direction of him and in the direction of'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 15–16, 20–22, for the place names Bdr and Khl. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary
The genealogy ʿyḏ bn ḥr occurs also in other inscriptions from al-ʿUḏayb, see U 032 and U 034.

Provenance
Al-ʿUḏayb (Jabal ʿIkmah). The inscription is chiselled on a rock inside the gorge
Original Reading Credit
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Original Translation Credit
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Technique
Incised

Associated Inscriptions
It is below U 102

  • Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 29 Plate 23b, 24a
  • Hidalgo-Chacón Díez, M. del C. Place names in the Dadanitic inscriptions of al-ʿUḏayb. Adumatu 30, 2014: 15-30
  • 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, Isolated Prayer, Place-name, Religion
Script
Dadanitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0033154
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