U 039

Siglum: U 039
Alternative Sigla: D 132, AH 026, Al-Qudrah 1993: 24, no. 32, Stiehl B 01
Transliteration: ʾrs² / bn
bʿl / ʾs¹d
hẓll / h- ẓll
w fʿl / h- ṣlm
l- ḏġbt
f rḍ -h
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Translation: By / son of ʾrs² son of
Bʿl ʾs¹d
performed the ẓll-ceremony
and made the statue
for Ḏġbt
and so favour him
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Language and Script: Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TEXT Line 3. Abū l-Ḥasan: hṭll h-ṭll for hẓll h-ẓll. TRANSLATION Line 2. ʾs¹d, Sima, followed by Farès-Drappeau: lineage name, translating "of the family of ʾs¹d". Line 3. hẓll h- ẓll, Stiehl: '(he) took care of the awning'; Al-Qudrah: '(they) constructed the awning';Sima: '(he) covered the subterranean water-channel'; Farès-Drappeau: '(he) offered the sacrifice'. Line 4. ṣlm, Stiehl: 'cult image'; Sima: 'inscription', and see Sima 1999: 97–98 for his argument for this interpretation of the word. DISCUSSION Déroche 1987: 102, 106, 107. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary: The text is rather carelessly incised and is surrounded by a cartouche. Note the relatively uncommon hẓll instead of the more common ʾẓll. h-ṣlm: Any statue the author set up was presumably removed long ago.

[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 109–111 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 Unpublished MA Thesis, Epigraphy Section, Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, Yarmouk University, Irbid. 1993.
Déroche, F. Recherches sur l'oasis de Dedan / al-Ula. Thèse de Doctorat: Études arabo-islamiques, Paris IV, 1987. [Unpublished], 1987.
[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
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 Plate 41, 42

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