U 115
Text Information
- 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]
- Translation
- 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}
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-.
- Provenance
- Al-ʿUḏayb (Jabal ʿIkmah). The inscription is chiselled on a rock inside the gorge
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Incised
- Associated Inscriptions
- It is below U 116, to the right of AH 163 and to the left of AH 169
- 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
- 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
- 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. 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, Relatives, Religion, Season, Women
- Script
- Dadanitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0037646
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