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U 001

Siglum
U 001
Alternative Sigla
Stiehl A 19; Al-Qudrah 1993: 20, no. 19; AH 051; D 112; Farès 2009: 184, no. 4
Transliteration
yhnʾ/w ġs¹m/bn– {y}/ʾmtbʿs¹mn/ʾg– w/[h-] ẓll/l- ḏġbt [b-] [k]hl/f rḍ -hm/w ʾḫr– [t] [-h][m]
Translation
Yhnʾ and Ġs¹m {the two childen of} ʾmtbʿs¹mn organi– zed {the} ẓll-ceremony for Ḏġbt {at Khl} and so favour them and {their} {posterity}

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 1. Stiehl, Al-Qudrah and Farès-Drappeau: hnʾ for yhnʾ. Abū l-Ḥasan: bn[w] rather than bn{y}. Farès-Drappeau: bn for bny. Line 2. Abū l-Ḥasan: ----[w] for {y}. Line 3. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭ[l]w h- ṭll for ʾgw h- ẓll. TRANSLATION Lines 2–3: ʾgw [h-] ẓll, Stiehl does not translate the verb ʾgw; h- ẓll 'the awning'; Al-Qudrah: 'they offered the awning'; Sima: '(they) cleared out the subterranean water-channel'; Farès-Drappeau: '(they) brought the sacrifice'. Line 4: b- khl, Stiehl and Sima: 'by their abilities'; Al-Qudrah: 'professionally'; Abū l-Ḥasan: 'in the month Khl'. Lines 4–5: ʾḫrt -hm, Farès-Drappeau: 'he has guided them'. DISCUSSION Déroche 1987: 229, 254. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 20–22, for the place name [K]hl. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary
The inscription is in relief. U 002 is incised immediately below line 4 of U 001, and U 004 is immediately to its left, leaving no room for the end of the phrase ʾḥrt -hm. It appears therefore either that the inscription was simply left incomplete, or that the missing portion of rock to the right of U 002 was sufficiently large to allow t -hm to be carved before the first name of U 002. While it is clear that a portion of the rock has broken away since U 001 and U 002 were carved, the fact that nothing is missing at the beginning of lines 1–4 of U 001 suggests that this part of the rock had its present shape at the time the texts were carved. It is clear from Al-ʿUḏayb 059 which is by ġs¹m bnt ʾmtbʿs¹mn that this text is by a brother and sister.

Provenance
Al-ʿUḏayb (Jabal ʿIkmah). The inscription is carved at the far right end of the rock which Stiehl (1971: 4) called ‘Block A’
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
In relief

Associated Inscriptions
It is to the right of U 005 and above U 002

  • 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 160–162 Plate 7
  • Farès-Drappeau, S. Dédan et Liḥyān. Histoire des Arabes aux confins des pouvoirs perse et hellénistique (IVe–IIe s. avant l'ère chrétienne). (Travaux de la maison de l'Orient, 42). Lyon: Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée — Jean Pouilloux, 2005. pp 201–202 Plate XXVII
  • Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 5–6 Plate 2a
  • Stiehl, R. Neue liḥyānische Inschriften aus al-ʿUḏaib I mit einem Nachtrag M. Höfners. Pages 3-40, 565-566, 569-594, pl. 1-45 in F. Altheim and R. Stiehl (eds), Christentum am Roten Meer. 1. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1971. pp 4, 24 Plate 23
  • Al-Qudrah, Ḥ.M. Dirāsah muʿǧamiyyah li-ʾlfāẓ al-nuqūš al-liḥyāniyyah fī iṭār al-luġāt al-sāmiyyah al-ǧanūbiyyah. Unpublished MA Thesis, Epigraphy Section, Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, Yarmouk University, Irbid. 1993.
  • Farès, S. Les femmes prêtresses dans les religions arabes préislamiques. Le cas des Liḥyanites. Pages 183-195 in F. Briquel-Chatonnet, S. Farès, B. Lion & C. Michel (eds), Femmes, cultures et sociétés dans les civilisations méditeranéennes et proche-orientales de l'Antiquité. (Topoi Supplément, 10). Paris: Gabalda. Lyon: Maison de l'Orient Meditérranée, 2009.
  • Déroche, F. Recherches sur l'oasis de Dedan / al-Ula. Thèse de Doctorat: Études arabo-islamiques, Paris IV, 1987. [Unpublished], 1987.
  • 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
#0037641
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