U 027

Siglum
U 027
Alternative Sigla
D 114, Al-Qudrah 1993: 21, no. 21, Stiehl A 21
Transliteration
zdl{h} / bn / hnʾ
{w} ʿbdt ----
ʾẓllw / l- [ḏ]ġbt
{b}ʿd / ml -hm / f rḍ {-h}[m]
---- s¹[ʿ]d [-h]m
OCIANA
Translation
By / son of / {Zdlh} son of Hnʾ {and} ʿbdt
performed the ẓll-ceremony for {Ḏġbt}
{for the sake of} their property and so favour {them}
---- {help} {them}
OCIANA
Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Lines 1–2. Stiehl followed by Al-Qudrah and Farès-Drappeau does not read these lines. Line 3. Stiehl followed by Al-Qudra and Farès-Drappeau: b– rather than l- [ḏ]ġbt and they consider the b the first letter of the word bʿd. Line 5. Stiehl followed by Al-Qudrah and Farès-Drappeau: m w ʾḫrt -hm for ---- s¹[ʿ]d - h[m]; Sima: {w ʾ}ṯb -hm for ---- s¹[ʿ]d -h[m]. TRANSLATION Line 3. ʾẓlw, 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 4. bʿd, Sima: 'in the [direction] of'; bʿd ml -hm, Farès-Drappeau: 'on behalf of their winter harvest'. DISCUSSION Déroche 1987: 104. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary
Line 3. The verb ʾẓllw means "they performed the ẓll-ceremony", the exact nature of which we do not know. Usually, but not always, this verb is followed by the noun h-ẓll meaning "the ẓll-ceremony". Thus, ʾẓllw and ʾẓllw h-ẓll both mean "they performed the ẓll-ceremony".

Editio Princeps
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Technique
Incised
Direction of Script
Horizontal line right to left

Associated Inscriptions
It is to the right of U 031 and above U 028

  • Al-Qudrah, Ḥ.M. Dirāsah muʿǧamiyyah li-ʾalfāẓ al-nuqūš al-liḥyāniyyah fī ʾiṭār 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 Unpublished MA Thesis, Epigraphy Section, Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, Yarmouk University, Irbid. 1993.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 [Unpublished], 1987.
  • [D] 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 202–203
  • 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
  • [U] Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 12–13 Plate 7a
  • [Stiehl A] 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 Plate 24
Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Deity, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Religion
Old OCIANA ID
#0037677
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