filename,copyright,inscription_siglum,provenance,editio_princeps,field_collector,reference_sigla,short_citations,transliteration,translation,commentary,commentary_author,site,ociana_link
im0026677.jpg,,U 071,Al-ʿUḏayb (Jabal ʿIkmah). The inscription is chiselled on a rock inside the gorge,OCIANA,,", AH, D, U, Stiehl A",Al-Qudrah 1993; Abū ʾl-Ḥasan 1997; Farès-Drappeau 2005; Sima 1999; Stiehl 1971; Macdonald MCA 2004; Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014,"ʿbdʾs¹ / bn / ḥ-
nlh / ʾgw / h- ẓl-
l / b- khl / ʿl{y}-
ml -h[ / ]b- b{d}[r]
w b-<<>>blḥ 
f rḍ [-h] / w ----","By / son of / ʿbdʾs¹ son of Ḥ-
nlh organized the ẓll-
ceremony at Khl {for} 
what belongs to him in {Bdr} 
and in Blḥ 
and so favour {him} and ----","The inscription is  surrounded by a rectangular cartouche.
There is a shallow chip in the rock face which may have resulted in the loss of the ends of lines 3–5.
Line 3. The h of khl has a very strange shape.
Line 4. There is no word-divider between ml -h and b-. The end of this line is damaged with the loss of the circle of the d (if that is what the letter is) and the whole of the r and anything (e.g. a word-divider and possibly a letter) that may have followed it.
Line 5. The presence of a word-divider after the second letter is bizarre. Stiehl followed by Al-Qudrah and Farès-Drappeau: w b- s²lbḥ for w b blḥ. However, both the photograph and Abū l-Ḥasan's copy show that the sign between the two bs is a word-divider not a s². The reading w b- blḥ (as here) in which the word-divider is ignored and blḥ is taken as another place name is not entirely satisfactory, but it is difficult to suggest an alternative. Sima reads blḥ but suggests that the final letter could be a ṣ rather than a ḥ, but comparison with the ḥ at the end of line 1, and the presence of blḥ in U 072 where the photograph is clearer, suggest that ḥ is the better reading.",,"Al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia",https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/15138
im0026679.jpg,,U 071,Al-ʿUḏayb (Jabal ʿIkmah). The inscription is chiselled on a rock inside the gorge,OCIANA,,", AH, D, U, Stiehl A",Al-Qudrah 1993; Abū ʾl-Ḥasan 1997; Farès-Drappeau 2005; Sima 1999; Stiehl 1971; Macdonald MCA 2004; Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014,"ʿbdʾs¹ / bn / ḥ-
nlh / ʾgw / h- ẓl-
l / b- khl / ʿl{y}-
ml -h[ / ]b- b{d}[r]
w b-<<>>blḥ 
f rḍ [-h] / w ----","By / son of / ʿbdʾs¹ son of Ḥ-
nlh organized the ẓll-
ceremony at Khl {for} 
what belongs to him in {Bdr} 
and in Blḥ 
and so favour {him} and ----","The inscription is  surrounded by a rectangular cartouche.
There is a shallow chip in the rock face which may have resulted in the loss of the ends of lines 3–5.
Line 3. The h of khl has a very strange shape.
Line 4. There is no word-divider between ml -h and b-. The end of this line is damaged with the loss of the circle of the d (if that is what the letter is) and the whole of the r and anything (e.g. a word-divider and possibly a letter) that may have followed it.
Line 5. The presence of a word-divider after the second letter is bizarre. Stiehl followed by Al-Qudrah and Farès-Drappeau: w b- s²lbḥ for w b blḥ. However, both the photograph and Abū l-Ḥasan's copy show that the sign between the two bs is a word-divider not a s². The reading w b- blḥ (as here) in which the word-divider is ignored and blḥ is taken as another place name is not entirely satisfactory, but it is difficult to suggest an alternative. Sima reads blḥ but suggests that the final letter could be a ṣ rather than a ḥ, but comparison with the ḥ at the end of line 1, and the presence of blḥ in U 072 where the photograph is clearer, suggest that ḥ is the better reading.",,"Al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia",https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/15138
im0026680.jpg,,U 071,Al-ʿUḏayb (Jabal ʿIkmah). The inscription is chiselled on a rock inside the gorge,OCIANA,,", AH, D, U, Stiehl A",Al-Qudrah 1993; Abū ʾl-Ḥasan 1997; Farès-Drappeau 2005; Sima 1999; Stiehl 1971; Macdonald MCA 2004; Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014,"ʿbdʾs¹ / bn / ḥ-
nlh / ʾgw / h- ẓl-
l / b- khl / ʿl{y}-
ml -h[ / ]b- b{d}[r]
w b-<<>>blḥ 
f rḍ [-h] / w ----","By / son of / ʿbdʾs¹ son of Ḥ-
nlh organized the ẓll-
ceremony at Khl {for} 
what belongs to him in {Bdr} 
and in Blḥ 
and so favour {him} and ----","The inscription is  surrounded by a rectangular cartouche.
There is a shallow chip in the rock face which may have resulted in the loss of the ends of lines 3–5.
Line 3. The h of khl has a very strange shape.
Line 4. There is no word-divider between ml -h and b-. The end of this line is damaged with the loss of the circle of the d (if that is what the letter is) and the whole of the r and anything (e.g. a word-divider and possibly a letter) that may have followed it.
Line 5. The presence of a word-divider after the second letter is bizarre. Stiehl followed by Al-Qudrah and Farès-Drappeau: w b- s²lbḥ for w b blḥ. However, both the photograph and Abū l-Ḥasan's copy show that the sign between the two bs is a word-divider not a s². The reading w b- blḥ (as here) in which the word-divider is ignored and blḥ is taken as another place name is not entirely satisfactory, but it is difficult to suggest an alternative. Sima reads blḥ but suggests that the final letter could be a ṣ rather than a ḥ, but comparison with the ḥ at the end of line 1, and the presence of blḥ in U 072 where the photograph is clearer, suggest that ḥ is the better reading.",,"Al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia",https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/15138
