U 108

Siglum
U 108
Alternative Sigla
D 131, AH 185, Al-Qudrah 1993: 26, no. 40, Stiehl D 07
Transliteration
{b}rd / s¹lm
ḏġbt / ʾẓ-
ll / l- ḏġbt
b- khl / bʿd
ḏ- kn / l- -h / b- y-
r / f rḍ -h[ / ]w ʾ-
ṯb -h
OCIANA
Translation
By -h son of {Brd} S¹lm
Ḏġbt perfor-
med the ẓll-ceremony for Ḏġbt
at Khl for the sake of
that which belongs to him in Y-
r and so favour him and re-
ward him
OCIANA
Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 1. Stiehl followed by Al-Qudrah and Farès-Drappeau: mrd s¹lḥ rather than brd s¹lm; Abū l-Ḥasan: [mg]d s¹lḥ for brd s¹lm. Lines 2–3. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭll rather than ʾẓll. Line 5. Sima: r at the end of this line. But there is no sign of this on the photograph. Lines 5–6. Abū l-Ḥasan: f ʿrtʿr----ʾ for b- yr f rḍ -h w ʾ; Farès-Drappeau b- bdr rather than b- yr. Line 7. Abū l-Ḥasan does not read this line. TRANSLATION Line 2. ʾẓll, Stiehl: '(he) took care of the awning'; Al-Qudrah: '(he) constructed (the awning)'; Sima: '(he) covered '; Farès-Drappeau: '(he) offered (the sacrifice)'. Line 4. b- khl, Stiehl followed by Sima: 'by his abilities'; Al-Qudrah: 'professionally'; Abū l-Ḥasan: 'in the month Khl'; bʿd, Sima: 'in the direction of'; Farès-Drappeau: 'on behalf of'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 20–22, for the place name Khl. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary
Sima does not identify this text with AH 185.

Editio Princeps
OCIANA

Technique
Incised
Direction of Script
Horizontal line right to left

Associated Signs
Cartouche

  • [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 351–353 Plate 20
  • Al-Qudrah, Ḥ.M. Dirāsah muʿǧamiyyah li-ʾalfāẓ al-nuqūš al-liḥyāniyyah fī ʾiṭār al-luġāt al-sāmiyyah al-ǧanūbiyyah. Unpublished MA Thesis, Epigraphy Section, Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, Yarmouk University, Irbid. 1993.
  • [D] Farès-Drappeau, S. Dédan et Liḥyān. Histoire des Arabes aux confins des pouvoirs perse et hellénistique (IVe–IIe s. avant l'ère chrétienne). (Travaux de la maison de l'Orient, 42). Lyon: Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée — Jean Pouilloux, 2005. pp 210–211
  • 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
  • [U] Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 29 Plate 24b, 25a
  • [Stiehl A] Stiehl, R. Neue liḥyānische Inschriften aus al-ʿUḏaib I mit einem Nachtrag M. Höfners. Pages 3-40, 565-566, 569-594, pl. 1-45 in F. Altheim and R. Stiehl (eds), Christentum am Roten Meer. 1. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1971. pp 35-36 Plate 45
Site
Al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Deity, Isolated Prayer, Place-name, Religion
Old OCIANA ID
#0037648
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OCIANA, 'U 108,' ed. A. Al-Jallad and M.C.A. Macdonald, OCIANA, 08 Jan, 2025. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/15135. Accessed: 06 Mar, 2026.