U 002

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

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.

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

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, 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
Hidalgo-Chacón Díez, M. del C. Place names in the Dadanitic inscriptions of al-ʿUḏayb. Adumatu 30, 2014: 15-30