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U 033

Siglum
U 033
Alternative Sigla
Stiehl A 24; Al-Qudrah 1993: 22, no. 24; AH 033; D 117
Transliteration
ʿyḏ/bn/ydʿ/ʿ– nn/ʾẓll/h- ẓll/ḏh l- ḏġbt/b- khl/bʿ– d/nḫl -h/b- ṯr/w dṯʾ -h/b- ḏʿmn f rḍ -h/w s¹– ʿd -h
Translation
ʿyḏ son of Ydʿ ʿ– nn performed this ẓll-ceremony for Ḏġbt at Khl for the sake of his palm trees in Ṯr and his crops of the season of the later rains in Ḏʿmn and so favour him and help him

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 1. Stiehl followed by Al-Qudrah and Farès-Drappeau does not read the beginning of this line. Lines 1–2. Abū l-Ḥasan does not read the first letters of these two lines. He reads ʾṭll h- ṭll rather than ʾẓll h- ẓll. TRANSLATION Lines 1–2. Sima treats the second name in the double name as a lineage name. Thus, he translates 'of the family of N'. Line 2. ʾẓll h- ẓll ḏh, Stiehl: '(he) took care of this awning'; Al-Qudrah: '(he) constructed this awning '; Sima: '(he) covered the subterranean water-channel'; Farès-Drappeau: '(he) offered this meat [of the female-camel]'. Line 3. b- khl, Stiehl followed by Sima: 'by his abilities'; Al-Qudrah: 'professionally'; Abū l-Ḥasan: 'in the month Khl'. Lines 3–4. bʿd, Sima: 'in the direction of'; Farès-Drappeau: 'on behalf of'. Line 5. dṯʾ, Stiehl, followed by Al-Qudrah, Abū l-Ḥasan Farès-Drappeau: 'the spring harvest'; Sima: 'the spring field'. DISCUSSION Macdonald 1992: 2–3, 7 for dṯʾ. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 18–22, for the place names Ṯr, Ḏʿmn and Khl. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary
Lines 6–7. These lines are shorter than those above them.

Provenance
Al-ʿUḏayb (Jabal ʿIkmah). The inscription is carved 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
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
In relief

Associated Inscriptions
It is to the right of U 035, to the left of U 031 and above 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 122–125 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
  • Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 14 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 Plate 27
  • Macdonald, M.C.A. The Seasons and Transhumance in the Safaitic Inscriptions. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland 3rd. series, 2, 1992: 1-11.
  • 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.
  • 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, Religion, Season
Script
Dadanitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0037672
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