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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

U 030

Siglum
U 030
Transliteration
whb[/]bn/ frʾ
Translation
Whb son of Frʾ

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 2. Sima: ----ʾ for frʾ.
Commentary
This graffito is incised immediately after the end line 6 of U 029.

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
OCIANA

Technique
Incised

  • Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 13
  • 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. p 4
Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Dadanitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0037674
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