U 040

Siglum: U 040
Alternative Sigla: Stiehl B 02; Al-Qudrah 1993: 24, no. 33; AH 025; D 133
Transliteration: qnlt/bn/ʿbdddh w bn -h/ms¹k/ʾgw h- ẓll/l- ḏġbt f rḍ -h/w ʾṯb -h
Translation: Qnlt son of ʿbdddh and his son Ms¹k organized the ẓll-ceremony for Ḏġbt and so favour him and reward him

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TEXT Line 1. Stiehl followed by Al-Qudrah: ʿbd ʿdh for ʿbdddh; Farès-Drappeau: ʿbd---- rather than ʿbdddh. Line 4. Abū l-Ḥasan: h- ṭll rather than h- ẓll. TRANSLATION Line 2. ʾgw, Abū l-Ḥasan: '(he) offered'. Lines 2–3. ʾgw h- ẓll, Stiehl does not translate the verb ʾgw, but hẓll as 'the awning'; Al-Qudrah: '(he) offered the awning'; Sima: '(he/they) cleared out the subterranean water-channel'; Farès-Drappeau: '(they) dedicated the offering'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary: Line 4. Although two people (Qnlt and his son) organized the ceremony the enclitic personal pronouns in the blessing (-h) are in the singular.

Provenance: Al-ʿUḏayb (Jabal ʿIkmah). The inscription is incised, to the left of U 039, on a rock, which Stiehl (1971: 4) called ‘Block B’. The location was not well chosen since the shape of the rock forces the second half of each line into a hollow
Original Reading Credit: Sima 1999: 16
Original Translation Credit: OCIANA

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