U 036

Siglum: U 036
Alternative Sigla: Stiehl A 31; Al-Qudrah 1993: 24, no. 31; AH 030; D 124
Transliteration: hnfy/[bn]/ṯʾlh w s¹byh ---- ṣf/ʾ– ẓlw/h- ẓll/[l-] ḏġbt bʿd[/]ml -hm ---- hm w ʾṯb -hm
Translation: Hnfy {son of} Ṯʾlh and S¹byh ---- ṣf per– formed the ẓll-ceremony {for} Ḏġbt for the sake of their property ----- and reward them

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TEXT Line 1. Abū l-Ḥasan: tʾlh for ṯʾlh; Farès-Drappeau: ----h for ṯʾlh. Line 2. Sima notes that the last personal name could be either Nṣf or Rṣf but Abū l-Ḥasan's copy reproduces it as Nṣf, and it was read thus by Stiehl and Al-Qudrah. It is not read at all by Farès-Drappeau. Line 3. Abū l-Ḥasan: ṭlw h- ṭll for ẓlw h- ẓll. Farès-Drappeau considers there to be a lacuna at the end of this line. However, on the photograph there is a clear space after the word ḏġbt. Line 4. Stiehl followed by Sima and Abū l-Ḥasan: [f rḍ] -hm rather than ---- hm; Sima: {f}{r}{ḍ} -h{m} for ---- hm; Farès-Drappeau does not read the end of this line. TRANSLATION Line 3. ʾẓlw h- ẓll, Stiehl: '(they) took care of the awning'; Al-Qudrah: '(they) constructed the awning'; Sima: '(they) covered the subterranean water-channel'; Farès-Drappeau: '(they) offered [the sacrifice]'. Line 4. bʿd, Sima: 'in the direction of'; bʿd ml -hm, Farès-Drappeau: 'on behalf of their winter harvest'. DISCUSSION Déroche 1987: 104. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.

Provenance: Al-ʿUḏayb (Jabal ʿIkmah). The inscription is incised incised on the back of rock face, which Stiehl (1971: 4) called ‘Block A’
Original Reading Credit: OCIANA
Original Translation Credit: OCIANA

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