U 116
Text Information
- Siglum
- U 116
- Transliteration
- ʿbdʾtbl hẓll/l- ḏġ– bt/f rḍy -h
- Translation
- ʿbdʾtbl performed the ẓll-ceremony for Ḏġ– bt and so may he favour him
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- TEXT Line 3. Sima: f rḍ -h rather than f rḍy -h. TRANSLATION Line 2. hẓll, Sima: 'he covered (the subterranean water-channel)'.
- Commentary
- Line 2. Note hẓll for the more common ʾẓll. The verb hẓll means "he performed the ẓll-ceremony", the exact nature of which we do not know. Usually, but not always, this verb is followed by the noun h-ẓll meaning "the ẓll-ceremony". Thus, hẓll and hẓll h-ẓll both mean "he performed the ẓll-ceremony" Line 3. The end of U 115/1 has been incised over the beginning of the last line of this text.
- 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 115 and to the left of AH 168
- Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 31 Plate 26a
- Site
- The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Deity, Isolated Prayer, Religion
- Script
- Dadanitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0037645
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