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U 034

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
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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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