U 020

Siglum
U 020
Alternative Sigla
D 102, AH 045, Al-Qudrah 1993: 17, no. 9, Stiehl A 09, van den Branden 1969: 73–74, no. 33, Altheim & Stiehl 1968: 28, N
Transliteration
hnʾms²l / bn / s¹ʿ-
dḥml / ʾẓll / h- ẓl-
l / bʿd / nḫl -h / b- ḏʿm{n}
l- ḏġbt / b- khl / f rḍ {-h}
w s¹ʿd -h / w ʾḫrt -h
OCIANA
Translation
By -h son of Hnʾms²l son of S¹ʿ-
dḥml performed the ẓl-
l-ceremony for the sake of his palm trees in {Ḏʿmn}
for Ḏġbt at Khl and so favour {him}
and help him and his posterity
OCIANA
Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Lines 1–2. Altheim and Stiehl followed by van den Branden: s¹ʿdṣll rather than s¹ʿdḥml; Stiehl followed by Al-Qudrah: s¹ʿdḥll for s¹ʿdḥml. Line 3. Altheim and Stiehl: ʾẓlh b- ḏʿ[ws] for nḫl -h b- ḏʿmn; van den Branden: ʾẓlh b- ḏʿ[n] for nḫl -h b- ḏʿmn. They restore rḍ[y-h] at the end of this line, but, on the photograph, the h can be seen immediately after the ḍ; Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭll h- ṭll rather than ʾẓll h- ẓll. Line 4. Altheim and Stiehl, followed by van den Branden: bs¹rn for b- khl; Altheim and Stiehl: f rḍ [y -h] for f rḍ -h. TRANSLATION Lines 2–3. ʾẓll h- ẓll, Altheim and Stiehl: '(he) constructed the awning'; van den Branden: '(he) repaired the cistern'; Stiehl: '(he) took care of the awning'; Al-Qudrah: '(he) constructed the awning'; Sima: '(he) covered the subterranean water-channel'; Farès-Drappeau: '(he) offered the sacrifice [of the camel]'. Line 3. bʿd, Altheim and Stiehl followed by van den Branden: 'then'; Sima: 'in the direction of'; bʿd nḫl -h, Farès-Drappeau: 'on behalf of her date harvest'. Line 4. b- khl, Stiehl followed by Sima: 'by his abilities'; Al-Qudrah: 'professionally'; Abū l-Ḥasan 'in the month Khl'. Line 5. ʾḫrt -h, Farès-Drappeau: 'he has guided him'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 19–22, for the place names Ḏʿm{n} and Khl. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary
Line 2: It can be seen on the photograph that the lower part of the left stroke of the m of s¹ʿdḥml has broken off. Line 6. The mason does not seem to have left himself sufficient space to carve the end of this line in relief and therefore had to incise the final word.

Editio Princeps
Stiehl 1971: 18

Technique
Mixed relief & incised
Direction of Script
Horizontal line right to left

Associated Inscriptions
It is below U 019 and to the left of U 016

  • [AH] Abū ʾl-Ḥasan, Ḥ.ʿA.D. Qirāʾah li-kitābāt liḥyāniyyah min ǧabal ʿakmah bi-minṭaqat al-ʿulā. Al-Riyāḍ: Maktabat al-malik fahd al-waṭaniyyah, 1997. pp 147–148 Plate 6
  • 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.
  • Altheim, F. & Stiehl, R. Die Araber in der Alten Welt. (5 volumes). Berlin: de Gruyter, 1964-1969.
  • [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 196 Plate XXV
  • 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
  • [U] Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 10–11 Plate 4a, 4b, 5a, 6a
  • [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, 18 Plate 15
  • Van den Branden, A. Les inscriptions liḥyanites de R. Stiehl. Al-Machriq 63, 1969: 67-79.
Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Agriculture, Deity, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Place-name, Religion
Old OCIANA ID
#0037684
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