U 066

Siglum: U 066
Alternative Sigla: AH 128
Transliteration: ʾfṣy bn/mʿn ʾẓll/ʿ/f rḍ -h/w s¹mʿ/l- -h ḥy/n{ḫ}l/b- ḏʿmn
Translation: ʾfṣy son of Mʿn performed the ẓll-ceremony ʿ and so favour him and listen to him ḥy {palm trees} in Ḏʿmn

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TEXT Line 2. Sima: mʿs² for mʿn. Line 3. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭll ʿn for ʾẓll ʿ and s¹lʿ for s¹mʿ; Sima does not read the end of this line. Line 4. Abū l-Ḥasan: (w ʿn) rather than ḥy; Sima does not read the beginning of this line. TRANSLATION Line 3. ʾẓll, Sima: '(he) covered ----'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 19–20, for the place name Ḏʿmn.
Commentary: Line 3. After ʾẓll, there is a ʿ between word-dividers for which we have no explanation. The inscription is difficult to interpret from a linguistic point-of-view. The invocatory formula is not placed at the end of the text. The verb ʾẓll 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, ʾẓll and ʾẓll h-ẓll both mean "he performed the ẓll-ceremony". Line 4. ḥy could be interpreted as a personal name or be used as a name of the palm garden.

Provenance: Al-ʿUḏayb (Jabal ʿIkmah). The inscription is chiselled on a rock inside the gorge
Original Reading Credit: OCIANA
Original Translation Credit: OCIANA

Associated Inscriptions: It is below U 065, to the right of U 064 and immediately to the left of U 067 which must predate it since lines 1 and 2 of U 066 have been made shorter than the rest of the text in order to avoid it

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 288–290 Plate 15
Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 22 Plate 16a
Hidalgo-Chacón Díez, M. del C. Place names in the Dadanitic inscriptions of al-ʿUḏayb. Adumatu 30, 2014: 15-30