U 002

Siglum
U 002
Transliteration
---- bnt / mrʾʿt
---- [h-] ẓll / l- ḏ-
[ġ][b][t][ / ]b-] / khl / bʿd
---- b- tqmm
[f] [r]ḍ {-h}
OCIANA
Translation
---- daughter of Mrʾʿt
---- {the} ẓll-ceremony for {Ḏ-
ġbt} {at} Khl for the sake of
---- at Tqmm
{and so favour} {her}
OCIANA
Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 4. Sima restores the beginning of this line with the word [nḫl -h] to follow the preposition bʿd at the end of line 3. The lacuna at the beginning of line 4 could equally well be filled with the expression ml -h (U 005/4-5, etc.) or ṯbrt -h (U 013/4, etc.). TRANSLATION Line 2. [h-] ẓll, Sima: 'the subterranean water-channel for Ḏġbt'. Line 3. khl bʿd, Sima: 'by her abilities in the direction of'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 18, 20–22, for the place names Tqmm and Khl.
Commentary
The inscription is incised. Part of the rock to the right of this text has broken away with the loss of the beginning of each of the lines.

Editio Princeps
OCIANA

Technique
In relief
Direction of Script
Horizontal line right to left

Associated Inscriptions
Incised below U 001 and to the right of U 006

  • Hidalgo-Chacón Díez, M. del C. Place names in the Dadanitic inscriptions of al-ʿUḏayb. Adumatu 30, 2014: 15-30
  • [U] Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. p 6 Plate 2a
  • [Stiehl A] 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. p 4
Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Isolated Prayer, Place-name, Religion, Women
Old OCIANA ID
#0037642
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Updated 08 Jan, 2025 by OCIANA