U 018

Siglum
U 018
Alternative Sigla
D 100, AH 047, Al-Qudrah 1993: 17, no. 7, Stiehl A 07, van den Branden 1969: 70–73, no. 32/1–6, Altheim & Stiehl 1968: 26-27, M/1–6
Transliteration
ʿms¹ʿd / bn / k-
brh / ʾẓl / h- ẓl-
l / l- ḏġbt / b-
ʿd / ml -h / f rḍ-
y -h / w s¹ʿd -h / w ʾḫ-
rt -h / w bn -h / ḥrm
OCIANA
Translation
By -h/w son of -h/ḥrm ʿms¹ʿd son of K-
brh performed the ẓl-
l-ceremony for Ḏġbt for the
sake of his property and may he
favour him and so may he help him and his
posterity and his son Ḥrm
OCIANA
Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
Altheim and Stiehl take U 018 and U 019 as one text (their M). TEXT Line 1. Altheim and Stiehl, followed by van den Branden, do not read the first letter, ʿ. Lines 2–3. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭl h- ṭll rather than ʾẓl h- ẓll. Lines 3–4. Stiehl read the ʿ of bʿd in this line. On the photograph, it can clearly be seen that it is at the beginning of line 4. Line 4. Altheim and Stiehl, followed by van den Branden: mlṭ rather than ml -h. Line 6. Altheim and Stiehl, followed by van den Branden: w bny for w bn -h; Farès-Drappeau does not read the end of this line; Altheim and Stiehl and van den Branden consider this inscription and U 019, as one text. TRANSLATION Lines 2–3. ʾẓl h- ẓll, Altheim and Stiehl: '(he) constructed the awning'; van den Branden: '(he) restored 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'. Lines 3–4. bʿd, Altheim and Stiehl, followed by van den Branden: 'then'; Sima: 'in the direction of'; bʿd ml -h, Farès-Drappeau: 'on behalf of his winter harvest'. Lines 5–6. ʾḫrt -h, Farès-Drappeau: 'he has guided him'. DISCUSSION Déroche 1987: 104, 236. Macdonald 2004: 510, 512, 526. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary
The inscription is in relief. Line 1. The first letter, ʿayn, is carved into the frame of the inscription. Line 4. At the end of this line the mason mistakenly carved a word-divider between the r and the ḍ in the expression f rḍy-h.

Editio Princeps
Stiehl 1971: 16-17

Technique
In relief
Direction of Script
Horizontal line right to left

Associated Inscriptions
It is below U 017, , to the right of U 021, to the left of U 014 and above U 019

  • [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 151–154 Plate 6
  • 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.
  • Altheim, F. & Stiehl, R. Die Araber in der Alten Welt. (5 volumes). Berlin: de Gruyter, 1964-1969.
  • 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 194–195 Plate XXV
  • 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
  • Macdonald, M.C.A. Ancient North Arabian. Pages 488-533 in R.D. Woodard (ed.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
  • [U] Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 10 Plate 3a, 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, 16–17 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
Deity, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Relatives, Religion
Old OCIANA ID
#0037686
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