U 027.1

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TEXT Stiehl followed by all subsequent editors, takes this graffito as the first line of the inscription U 028. However, the fact that its beginning is not aligned with the text U 028 and the odd relationship of the words in it to those at the beginning of U 028/1, suggest it should be taken as a separate text. Farès-Drappeau reads Ṭlm rather than {Ẓ}lm. DISCUSSION Déroche 1987: 228.

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: OCIANA
Original Translation Credit: OCIANA

Associated Inscriptions: It is below U 027, to the right of U 031 and U 032, to the left of U 024 and above U 029

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Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 13 Plate 7a
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, 24 Plate 24
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 Unpublished MA Thesis, Epigraphy Section, Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, Yarmouk University, Irbid. 1993.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 [Unpublished], 1987.