U 065

Siglum: U 065
Alternative Sigla: AH 130
Transliteration: ns²l/bn/whbl– h/ʾẓll/h- ẓll b- khl/l- ḏġbt bʿd/ḏ- kn/l- -h b- bdr/f rḍ -h
Translation: Ns²l son of Whbl– h performed the ẓll-ceremony at Khl for Ḏġbt for the sake of that which belongs to him in Bdr and so favour him

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TEXT Line 1. Sima does not read the first personal name. Line 2. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭll h- ṭll for ʾẓll h- ẓll. Line 5. Sima: b---- rather than b- bdr. TRANSLATION Line 2. ʾẓll h- ẓll, Sima: '(he) covered the subterranean water-channel'. Line 3. b- khl, Abū l-Ḥasan: 'in the month Khl'; Sima: 'by his abilities'. Line 4. bʿd, Sima: 'in the direction of'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 15–16, 20–22, for the place names Bdr and Khl. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary: The inscription is surrounded by wusūm (tribal marks) and a number of rock drawings including five lyres. The left two lyres, at least, must be older than the inscription since its last line is carved over parts of them.

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

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 292–294 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
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