U 041

Siglum: U 041
Alternative Sigla: AH 021
Transliteration: mgd/bn/ḥrb ḫṯmh/hẓll [l-] ḏġbt/b- khl b[ʿ]d/ḫrf -h/b- bd[r] f r[ḍ] -h/w ʾḫrt -h
Translation: Mgd son of Ḥrb Ḫṯmh performed the ẓll-ceremony {for} Ḏġbt at Khl {for the sake of} his crops of the season of the first rains in {Bdr} and so {favour} him and his posterity

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TEXT Line 2. Abū l-Ḥasan: [ṯl]mh for ḫṯmh and hẓll rather than hẓll. TRANSLATION Line 2. Sima treats the second name in the double name as a lineage name. Thus, he translates 'of the family of N'; h- ẓll '(he) covered (the subterranean water-channel)'. Line 3. b- khl, Abū l-Ḥasan: 'in the month Khl'; Sima: 'by his abilities'. Line 4. b[ʿ]d, Sima: 'in the direction of'. DISCUSSION Macdonald 1992: 3–4, for ḫrf. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 15–16, 20–22,, for the place names Bd[r] and Khl. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary: Line 2. Note the relatively uncommon hẓll instead of the more common ʾẓll. The verb hẓll 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, hẓll and hẓll h-ẓll both mean "he performed the ẓll-ceremony".

Provenance: Al-ʿUḏayb (Jabal ʿIkmah). The inscription is carved on a rock, which Stiehl (1971: 4) called ‘Block B’
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 101–103 Plate 3
Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 16–17 Plate 9a, 9b, 10a, 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
Macdonald, M.C.A. The Seasons and Transhumance in the Safaitic Inscriptions. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland 3rd. series, 2, 1992: 1-11.
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

Current Location: In situ
Subjects: Agriculture, Deity, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Place-name, Religion, Season
Script: Dadanitic
Old OCIANA ID: #0037666
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