U 044
Text Information
- Siglum
- U 044
- Transliteration
- ʿbd/rgg/s¹l ḥ/ḏġbt/w ʾb -h/ʿnʾl/bn [----] ʾẓlw/l- ḏġbt b- khl/bʿd/m kn/l- -hm/b- bdr f rḍ -hm/w ʾḫr– t -[h]m/w ʾṯb -hm
- Translation
- ʿbd Rgg priest of Ḏġbt and his father ʿnʾl son of {----} performed the ẓll-ceremony for Ḏġbt at Khl for the sake of what belongs to them in Bdr and so favour them and {their} posterity and reward them
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- TRANSLATION Lines 1–2. Sima does not translate the word s¹lḥ. Lines 4–5. Sima: '(they) covered for Ḏġbt (the subterranean water-channel) by their abilities 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
- Line 4. 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 8. The author omitted the h of -hm.
- Provenance
- Al-ʿUḏayb (Jabal ʿIkmah). The inscription is incised on a rock, which Stiehl (1971: 4) called ‘Block B’
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Incised
- Associated Inscriptions
- It is far to the left of U 043
- Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 17–18 Plate 10b, 11a
- 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. p 4
- 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
- Site
- The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Deity, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Place-name, Relatives, Religion
- Script
- Dadanitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0037664
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