U 117
Text Information
- Siglum
- U 117
- Alternative Sigla
- AH 150; Ryckmans 3.7a
- Transliteration
- rḍw{ʾ}l/bn/ʿbdh/ʾẓll l- ḏġbt/b- khl/bʿd/dṯ– ʾ -h/b- ṯr/w nḫl -h/b- ṯr/f rḍ -h/w ʾ[ḫ]rt -h
- Translation
- {Rḍwʾl} son of ʿbdh performed the ẓll-ceremony for Ḏġbt at Khl for the sake of his crops of the season of the later rains in Ṯr and his palm trees in Ṯr and so favour him and his {posterity}
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- TEXT Line 1. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭll for ʾẓll. Lines 2–3. Abū l-Ḥasan: dt[ʾ] -h rather than dṯʾ -h. Line 3. Abū l-Ḥasan: b- tr rather than b- ṯr, and b- ṯr w rather than b- ṯr f; Scagliarini: kṯr rather than b- ṯr. TRANSLATION Lines 1–2. ʾẓll, Sima: '(he) covered (the subterranean water-channel'. Line 2. b- khl, Abū l-Ḥasan: 'in the month Khl'; Sima: 'by his abilities'. Lines 2–3. dṯʾ -h, Sima: 'his spring field'. DISCUSSION Macdonald 1992: 2–3, 7 for dṯʾ. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 18, 20–22, for the place names Ṯr and Khl. 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
- Sima 1999: 31
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Incised
- Associated Inscriptions
- It is above U 118
- 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 319–321 Plate 18
- Scagliarini, F. The Dedanitic inscriptions from Ǧabal ʿIkma in north-western Hejaz. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 29, 1999: 143-150. pp 145–146
- Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 31 Plate 26b
- Macdonald, M.C.A. The Seasons and Transhumance in the Safaitic Inscriptions. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland 3rd. series, 2, 1992: 1-11.
- 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
- Agriculture, Deity, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Place-name, Religion, Season
- Script
- Dadanitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0037644
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