U 014

Siglum
U 014
Alternative Sigla
D 103, AH 055, Al-Qudrah 1993: 18, no. 10, Stiehl A 10, van den Branden 1969: 74–75, no. 34, Altheim & Stiehl 1968: 28, I
Transliteration
ṣrmh / bn / hn-
ʾh / ʾẓll / h-
ẓll / l- ḏ-
ġbt / bʿd / nḫ-
l -h / f rḍ -h / w s¹-
ʿd -h / w ʾḫrt -h
OCIANA
Translation
By -h son of Ṣrmh son of Hn-
ʾh performed the ẓll-
ceremony for Ḏ-
ġbt for the sake of his palm
trees 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 and Stiehl read rnnh for hnʾh. Lines 2–3. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭll h- ṭll for ʾẓll h- ẓll. Lines 4–5. van den Branden: nẓl for nḫl. TRANSLATION Lines 2–3. ʾẓll h- ẓll, Altheim and Stiehl: '(he) constructed the awning'; Stiehl: '(he) took care of the awning'; van den Branden: '(he) restored the cistern'; Al-Qudrah: '(he) constructed the awning'; Sima: '(he) covered the subterranean water-channel'; Farès-Drappeau: '(he) offered the sacrifice'. Line 4. bʿd, Altheim and Stieh: 'then'; van den Branden: 'absent'; Sima: 'in the direction of'; bʿd nḫl -h, Farès-Drappeau: 'on behalf of his date harvest'. Line 6. ʾḫrt -h, Farès-Drappeau: 'he has guided him'. DISCUSSION Macdonald (in press): 16, 24.
Commentary
The inscription is in relief, except for the last letter of line 5 and the whole of line 6 which are incised.

Editio Princeps
Sima 1999: 9

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

Associated Inscriptions
It is to the right of U 018, to the left of U 008 and above U 015

  • [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 168–170 Plate 8
  • 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 Unpublished MA Thesis, Epigraphy Section, Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, Yarmouk University, Irbid. 1993.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 196–197
  • Macdonald, M.C.A. Towards a reassessment of the Ancient North Arabian alphabets used in the oasis of al-ʿUlā. Pages 1–19 in M.C.A. Macdonald (ed.), Languages, scripts and their uses in ancient North Arabia. (Supplement to volume 48 of the Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies). Oxford: Archaeopress, 2018.
  • [U] Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. p 9 Plate 3a, 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. pp 4, 18–19 Plate 15, 16
  • 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, Religion
Old OCIANA ID
#0037690
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