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U 035

Siglum
U 035
Alternative Sigla
Stiehl A 26; Al-Qudrah 1993: 22, no. 26; AH 034; D 119
Transliteration
brqh/s¹– lḥ/ḏġbt ʾfy/h- ẓll l- ḏġbt/bʿd ml -h/b- ḏʿmn f rḍ -h/w ʾḫrt -h
Translation
Brqh priest of Ḏġbt accomplished the ẓll-ceremony for Ḏġbt for the sake of his property in Ḏʿmn and so favour him and his posterity

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 2. Abū l-Ḥasan: h-ṭll for h-ẓll. TRANSLATION Lines 1–2. Sima does not translate the word s¹lḥ. Line 3. ʾfy, Abū l-Ḥasan: '(he) offered'; ʾfy h- ẓll, Stiehl: '(he) gave the awning'; Al-Qudrah: '(he) constructed the awning'; Sima: '(he) maintained the subterranean water-channel'; Farès-Drappeau: '(he) paid the sacrifice'. Line 4. bʿd, Sima: 'in the direction of'; Farès-Drappeau: 'on behalf of'. Line 5. ml -h, Farès-Drappeau: 'his winter harvest'. Line 6. ʾḫrt -h, Farès-Drappeau: 'he guided him'. DISCUSSION Macdonald 2004: 507. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 19–20, for the place name Ḏʿmn. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary
The break in the rock clearly predates the inscription since nothing is missing from the text.

Provenance
Al-ʿUḏayb (Jabal ʿIkmah). The inscription is incised at the far left end of the rock, which Stiehl (1971: 4) called ‘Block A’
Original Reading Credit
Stiehl 1971: 28
Original Translation Credit
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Technique
Incised

Associated Inscriptions
It is to the left of U 033 and U 034

  • 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 125–127 Plate 5
  • 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 205
  • Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 15 Plate 8a
  • 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, 28 Plate 28, 29
  • 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 Unpublished MA Thesis, Epigraphy Section, Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, Yarmouk University, Irbid. 1993.
  • Macdonald, M.C.A. Ancient North Arabian. Pages 488-533 in R.D. Woodard (ed.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
  • 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
Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Deity, Isolated Prayer, Place-name, Religion
Script
Dadanitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0037670
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