U 115

Siglum
U 115
Alternative Sigla
AH 170
Transliteration
s¹lm / bn / ʿf-
ʾl / w ʾṯt -h
ṯrḍh / bn-
t / mnʿh / ʾgw
w / ʾ- ẓll / l- ḏġbt
bʿd / nḫl -hm / w dṯʾ -h-
m / f rḍ -h-
m w ʾṯb [-h][m]
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Translation
By / son of / S¹lm bn ʿf-
ʾl and his wife
Ṯrḍh daughter of Mnʿh organized
the ẓll-ceremony for Ḏġbt
for the sake of their palm trees and their crops of the season of later rains
and so favour them and reward {them}

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Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Lines 1–2. Abū l-Ḥasan: s¹lf bn ʿlʾl rather than s¹lm bn ʿfʾl. Line 3. Sima: ṯrwh for ṯrḍh; Abū l-Ḥasan: ṯrṭh rather than ṯrḍh. Line 4. Abū l-Ḥasan reads the first letter (t) in the previous line. Line 5. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭll rather than ʾẓll. Line 8. Abū l-Ḥasan: w ʾṯb [-h] rather than m w ʾṯb [-h][m]. TRANSLATION Line 4. ʾgw, Abū l-Ḥasan: '(he) offered'. Lines 4–5. ʾgw w ʾẓll, Sima: '(he) cleared out and covered (the subterranean water-channels)'. Line 6. bʿd, Sima: 'in the direction of'; dṯʾ -h, Abū l-Ḥasan: 'his spring harvest'; Sima: 'his spring field'. DISCUSSION Macdonald 1992: 2–3, 7 for dṯʾ. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary
Line 5. The w at the beginning of this line is the 3rd person masculine plural ending of the verb ʾgw (that is ʾgww) at the end of the line above. Note the definite article ʾ- before ẓll rather than the more common h-.

Editio Princeps
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Technique
Incised
Direction of Script
Horizontal line right to left

Associated Inscriptions
It is below U 116, to the right of AH 163 and to the left of AH 169

  • [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 337–340 Plate 19
  • 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.
  • [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 26a
Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Agriculture, Deity, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Relatives, Religion, Season, Women
Old OCIANA ID
#0037646
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