U 040

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

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.

Editio Princeps
Sima 1999: 16

Technique
Incised
Direction of Script
Horizontal line right to left

  • [AH] 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 108–109 Plate 4
  • Al-Qudrah, Ḥ.M. Dirāsah muʿǧamiyyah li-ʾlfāẓ al-nuqūš al-liḥyāniyyah fī iṭār al-luġāt al-sāmiyyah al-ǧanūbiyyah. Unpublished MA Thesis, Epigraphy Section, Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, Yarmouk University, Irbid. 1993.
  • [D] Farès-Drappeau, S. Dédan et Liḥyān. Histoire des Arabes aux confins des pouvoirs perse et hellénistique (IVe–IIe s. avant l'ère chrétienne). (Travaux de la maison de l'Orient, 42). Lyon: Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée — Jean Pouilloux, 2005. pp 211–212
  • 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
  • [U] Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 16
  • [Stiehl A] 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. pp 4, 34–35 Plate 43
Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Deity, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Relatives, Religion
Old OCIANA ID
#0037667
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