U 029
Text Information
- Siglum
- U 029
- Alternative Sigla
- Stiehl A 22; Al-Qudrah 1993: 21, no. 22; D 115
- Transliteration
- ʿyḏ/bn[/]z{h}lḥ/w bn -h ʾmḥh/ʾ{ẓ}lw/h- {ẓ}– ll/l- ḏġbt/bʿd ml -h/b- t[q]m{m}/f rḍ -h w ʾḫrt -h/w s¹ʿd [-h]
- Translation
- ʿyḏ son of {Zhlḥ} and his son ʾmḥh {performed} the {ẓll- ceremony} for Ḏġbt for the sake of his property in {Tqmm} and so favour him and his posterity and
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- TEXT Line 1. Stiehl followed by Sima, Al-Qudrah and Farès-Drappeau does not read the patronym zhlḥ. Line 2. Stiehl followed by Al-Qudrah and Farès-Drappeau: ʾlmh rather than ʾmḥh. Line 3. Stiehl followed by Al-Qudrah and Farès-Drappeau: b- t[ymm] rather than b- tqmm. TRANSLATION Line 2. ʾ{ẓ}lw h- ẓll, Stiehl: '(they) took care of the awning'; Al-Qudrah: '(they) constructed the awning ; Sima: '(they) covered the subterranean [water-channel]'; Farès-Drappeau: '(they) offered the sacrifice' Line 3. bʿd, Sima: 'in the direction of'; bʿd ml -hm, Farès-Drappeau: 'on behalf of their winter harvest'. DISCUSSION Déroche 1987: 104. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 18, for the place name T[q]m{m}. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
- Commentary
- The break in the rock clearly predates the inscription since nothing is missing from the text. Note the verb (ʾ{ẓ}lw) is in the plural rather than the dual despite the two subjects.
- 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
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Incised
- Associated Inscriptions
- It is below U 028, to the right of U 032 and to the left of U 025, and U 026
- 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 203
- 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. pp 4, 25–26 Plate 25
- 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
- Deity, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Place-name, Relatives, Religion
- Script
- Dadanitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0037675
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