U 034
Text Information
- Siglum
- U 034
- Alternative Sigla
- Stiehl A 25; Al-Qudrah 1993: 22, no. 25; AH 035; D 118
- Transliteration
- ʿyḏ/bn/ḥr/b- khl ʾẓll/h- ẓlln bʿd -h/w bʿd ʾb -h/w bʿd nḫl -h [l-] ḏġbt/f rḍ -h w ʾḫrt -h/w s¹ʿd -h
- Translation
- ʿyḏ son of Ḥr at Khl performed two ẓll-ceremonies for his own sake and for the sake of his father and for the sake of his palm trees {for} Ḏġbt and so favour him and his posterity and help him
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- TEXT Line 1. Stiehl followed by Al-Qudrah and Farès-Drappeau: ḥbbt rather than ḥr b-khl. Line 2. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭll h- ṭlln for ʾẓll h- ẓlln; Stiehl followed by Al-Qudrah and Farès-Drappeau: h- ẓll for h- ẓlln. TRANSLATION Line 1. b- khl, Stiehl, followed by Sima: 'by his abilities'; Al-Qudrah: 'professionally'; Abū l-Ḥasan: 'in the month Khl'. Line 2. ʾẓll h- ẓlln, '(he) took care of the awning'; Al-Qudrah: 'he constructed the awning'; Sima: '(he) covered the two subterranean water-channels'; Farès-Drappeau: '(he) offered the meats (of the female camel)'. Lines 3–4. bʿd, Sima: 'in the direction of'; Farès-Drappeau: 'on behalf of'. Line 6. ʾḫrt -h, Farès-Drappeau: 'he guided him'. DISCUSSION Déroche 1987: 104, 236, 240. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 20–22, for the place name Khl. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
- Commentary
- Due to damage to the rock face, the lines are not aligned on the left side. Line 1. It can be seen in the photograph and on Abū l-Ḥasan's facsimile that Sima's reading (followed here) is correct. The l of Khl can be seen between the last letter of line 4 of U 033 and the first letter of line 1 of U 035.
- Provenance
- Al-ʿUḏayb (Jabal ʿIkmah). The inscription is incised amongst a mass of others on one side of the huge rock, which Stiehl (1971: 4) called ‘Block A’
- Original Reading Credit
- Sima 1999: 14-15
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Incised
- Associated Inscriptions
- It is below U 033, to the left of U 032 and above U 035
- 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 127–129 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 204–205
- Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 14–15 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, 27–28 Plate 26, 27
- 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.
- 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
- Agriculture, Deity, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Place-name, Relatives, Religion
- Script
- Dadanitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0037671
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