U 016

Siglum: U 016
Transliteration: ngʿh / bnt / s¹-
lm / s¹lḥ / ḏġbt
b{n} s¹lmn / ʾẓlt
b- khl / l- ḏġbt
h- ẓll / bʿd / ṯ-
b{r}t -h / f rḍ
-h / w s¹ʿd -h
OCIANA
Translation: By -h son of Ngʿh daughter of S¹-
lm priest of Ḏġbt
{son of} S¹lmn performed
at Khl for Ḏġbt
the ẓll-ceremony for the sake of her
{grain} and so favour her
and help her
OCIANA
Language and Script: Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TEXT Line 1. Sima: ngyl for ngʿh. Line 3. Sima does not read the beginning b{n}. Line 7. Sima restores the -h/w, which can be read at beginning of this line, at the end of line 6. TRANSLATION Line 2. Sima does not translate the word s¹lḥ. Lines 3–5. Sima: '(she) covered by her abilities for Ḏġbt the subterranean water-channel in the direction of her fallow field'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 20–22, for the place name Khl. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary: The inscription is incised and difficult to read. Due a crack in the rock face, the lines are not aligned on the right side. The letters of the last three lines are badly formed. Line 4. The letter b at the beginning of this line is incised immediately after the end of the first line of U 010. Line 8. The letters -h and w- at the beginning of this line are incised immediately after the end of the fourth line of U 010. The vertical stroke of the letter w was incised very carelessly, and can hardly be seen. We follow Farès-Drappeau in taking ṯbrt as possibly cognate with Hebrew šeber "grain". Though this is by no means certain it fits the context well. See also the discussion in Sima 1999: 104.

Associated Inscriptions: It is below U 015, to the right of U 019 and U 020, and to the left of U 009 and U 010

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 9–10 Plate 4a, 4b, 5a
[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. p 4

Current Location: In situ
Subjects: Agriculture, Deity, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Place-name, Religion, Women
Old OCIANA ID: #0037688
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