U 101

Siglum
U 101
Alternative Sigla
AH 177
Transliteration
ks²d / bn ----
ngʾ / ʾẓl / l- ḏġbt
f rḍ -h / w s¹ʿd -h
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Translation
By / son of ---- Ks²d son of ----
ngʾ performed the ẓll-ceremony for Ḏġbt
and so favour him and help him
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Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Lines 1–2. Abū l-Ḥasan: [k]mʾ rather than ----ngʾ. Line 2. Sima does not read the beginning of this line; Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭl for ʾẓl. TRANSLATION Line 2. ʾẓl, Sima: '(he) covered (this subterranean water-channel)'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary
Sima does not identify this text with AH 177. Line 1 is not aligned with those below it. Line 2. The verb ʾẓl 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, ʾẓl and ʾẓl h-ẓll both mean "he performed the ẓll-ceremony".

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

Associated Inscriptions
It is above U 102, AH 165 and AH 175

  • [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 343–344 Plate 20
  • 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 23b, 24a
Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Deity, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Religion
Old OCIANA ID
#0037649
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Updated 08 Jan, 2025 by OCIANA