U 017

Siglum: U 017
Alternative Sigla: D 098, AH 044, Al-Qudrah 1993: 16, no. 5, Stiehl A 05
Transliteration: s¹mg / bn / mrʾḏ-
ġbt / ʾẓll / h- ẓl-
l / l- ḏġbt / bʿd / ml -h / {f}
rḍ -h w s¹ʿ[d] -h w ʾḫ-
rt -h
OCIANA
Translation: By / son of / S¹mg son of Mrʾḏ-
ġbt performed the ẓl-
l-ceremony for Ḏġbt for the sake of his property {and so}
favour him and {help} him and his
posterity
OCIANA
Language and Script: Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TEXT Line 1. Abū l-Ḥasan: s¹gl rather than s¹mg; Stiehl followed by Al-Qudrah, Sima and Farès-Drappeau: s¹mm for s¹mg. Lines 2–3. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭll h- ṭll rather than ʾẓll h- ẓll. TRANSLATION Lines 2–3. ʾẓll h- ẓll, 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'. Line 3. bʿd, Sima: 'in the direction of'; bʿd ml -h, Farès-Drappeau: 'on behalf of his winter harvest'. Lines 4–5. ʾḫrt -h, Farès-Drappeau: 'he has guided him'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary: The inscription is in relief. Because the rock face to the right of it was already damaged before the inscription was carved, the beginnings of the lines are not aligned. On the left side, line 3 is longer than the others, while line 4 is shorter because the condition of the rock made it difficult to carve more letters. Line 5 is placed just above U 18 and at the same level as line 1 of U 021. It is possible that this inscription was carved in the space remaining after carving U 018 and U 021. Line 4. The carver omitted the d of s¹ʿd.

Associated Inscriptions: It is above U 018 and U 021, and to the right of U 024

[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 145–147 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 Unpublished MA Thesis, Epigraphy Section, Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, Yarmouk University, Irbid. 1993.
[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 193–194
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 Plate 5b
[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, 15 Plate 11

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