U 068

Siglum
U 068
Alternative Sigla
D 129, AH 059, Al-Qudrah 1993: 25-26, no. 38, Stiehl D 05
Transliteration
ʾmts²bʿn
bnt / rḥbl
ḏ- yfʿn
ʾẓllt / h- ẓll
l- ḏġbt / bʿd
nḫl -h / [b-] tqmm
f rḍ -h / w ʾḫrt [-h]
OCIANA
Translation
ʾmts²bʿn
daughter of Rḥbl
of the family of Yfʿn
performed the ẓll-ceremony
for Ḏġbt for the sake of
her palm trees {in} Tqmm
and so favour her and {her} posterity
OCIANA
Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 4. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭllt h- ṭll for ʾẓllt h- ẓll. Line 6. Stiehl followed by Al-Qudrah and Farès-Drappeau: tymm rather than tqmm; Abū l-Ḥasan: tl (mm) for tqmm. TRANSLATION Line 4. ʾẓllt h- ẓll, Stiehl: '(she) took care of the awning'; Al-Qudrah: '(she) constructed the offering'; Sima: '(she) covered the subterranean water-channel'; Farès-Drappeau: '(she) offered the sacrifice'. Line 5. bʿd, Sima: 'in the direction of'; Farès-Drappeau: 'on behalf of'. Line 7. ʾḫrt -h, Farès-Drappeau: 'he has guided her'. DISCUSSION Déroche 1987: 236. Macdonald 2004: 510 §4.2.1; 515 §(14). Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 18, for the place name Tqmm. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary
Line 3. The use of ḏ here to introduce the name of the lineage group of a woman, shows that this particle is indeclinable in Dadanitic. This needs to be added to Macdonald 2004: 508, §4. Lines 4–5. These lines extend further to the left than the others, across a ridge in the rock face onto the surface which bears U 069. Lines 6–7. These lines are incised in the horizontal rock immediately in front of the vertical face bearing lines 1–5.

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

Associated Inscriptions
It is to the right of U 069

  • [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 177–180 Plate 8
  • Al-Qudrah, Ḥ.M. Dirāsah muʿǧamiyyah li-ʾlfāẓ al-nuqūš al-liḥyāniyyah fī iṭār al-luġāt al-sāmiyyah al-ǧanūbiyyah. Unpublished MA Thesis, Epigraphy Section, Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, Yarmouk University, Irbid. 1993.
  • Déroche, F. Recherches sur l'oasis de Dedan / al-Ula. Thèse de Doctorat: Études arabo-islamiques, Paris IV, 1987. [Unpublished], 1987.
  • [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 209–210
  • 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
  • Macdonald, M.C.A. Ancient North Arabian. Pages 488-533 in R.D. Woodard (ed.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
  • [U] Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 22 Plate 16b
  • [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 32–33 Plate 39
Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Agriculture, Deity, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Lineage, Place-name, Religion, Women
Old OCIANA ID
#0037654
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