U 117

Siglum
U 117
Alternative Sigla
Ryckmans 3.7a, AH 150
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
OCIANA
Translation
By -h son of {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}
OCIANA
Language and Script
Dadanitic

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.

Editio Princeps
Sima 1999: 31

Technique
Incised
Direction of Script
Horizontal line right to left

Associated Inscriptions
It is above U 118

  • [AH] 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
  • 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
  • [MST] 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.
  • [Ryckmans] 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
  • [U] 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
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
Old OCIANA ID
#0037644
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