U 027

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

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".

Provenance: Al-ʿUḏayb (Jabal ʿIkmah). The inscription is incised amongst a large number of others on one side of the huge rock, which Stiehl (1971: 4) called ´Block A´
Original Reading Credit: OCIANA
Original Translation Credit: OCIANA

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