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U 032

Siglum
U 032
Alternative Sigla
Stiehl A 23/7–8 and A 27; Al-Qudrah 1993: 21–22, no. 23/7-8; AH 036; D 120
Transliteration
ʿyḏ/bn/ḥr ʾgw/l- ḏġbt ṯlṯt/ʾẓl– t/f rḍ -h/w s¹ʿd -h w ʾḫ– rt -h
Translation
ʿyḏ son of Ḥr organized for Ḏġbt three ẓll-ceremo– nies and so favour him and help him and his des– cendants

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Lines 1–2. Stiehl, followed by Al-Qudrah, considers the first two lines of this text to be the end of U 031, and the present inscription (Stiehl A 27) to begin ṯlṯt/ʾẓlt. The correct arrangement was first made by Drewes. It was followed by Sima (U 029 and U 032) and Abū l-Ḥasan. However Farès-Drappeau (pp 203 (D 115), pp 205–206 (D 120)) rejected Stiehl's attribution of lines 1–2 to the end of Stiehl A 23 (Farès-Drappeau's D 115) but did not include them at the beginning of the present text (her D 120) which, like Stiehl (A 27), she began with ṯlṯt ʾẓlt and followed Stiehl in explaining ṯlṯt as a personal name. Lines 3–4. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭlt for ʾẓlt. TRANSLATION Line 2. ʾgw, Al-Qudrah followed by Abū l-Ḥasan: '(he) offered'. Lines 2–3. ʾgw l- ḏġbt ṯlṯt ʾẓlt, Sima: '(he) cleared out for Ḏġbt three subterranean water-channels'. Line 3. ẓlt, Farès-Drappeau: '(he) offered (the sacrifice). Lines 5–6. ʾḫrt -h, Farès-Drappeau: 'he has guided him'. DISCUSSION Drewes 1985: 172, footnote no. 2. Déroche 1987: 104. Macdonald 2004: 504, §4.1.2.3 (4). Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary
Due to damage to the rock face the lines are irregularly incised. The last lines are shorter than those above them. On the left side the letters join with those of U 034.

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
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Incised

Associated Inscriptions
It is below U 031, to the right of U 034 and to the left of U 028

  • 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 129–131 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 205–206
  • Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 14 Plate 7b
  • 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, 26–29 Plate 26, 30
  • Drewes, A.J. The Phonemes of Liḥyanite. Pages 165-173 in C. Robin (ed.), Mélanges linguistiques offerts à Maxime Rodinson par ses élèves, ses collègues et ses amis. (Comptes Rendus du Groupe Linguistique d'Études Chamito-Sémitiques. Supplément, 12). Paris: Geuthner, 1985.
  • 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.
  • 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. 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, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Religion
Script
Dadanitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0037673
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