U 012

Siglum
U 012
Alternative Sigla
D 123, AH 028, Al-Qudrah 1993: 23, no. 30, Stiehl A 30
Transliteration
s¹ʿd / s¹lḥ / ḏ-
ġbt / ʾẓll / h- ẓ-
ll / l- ḏġbt / b- k-
hl / bʿd / ml -h
b- bdr / f rḍ -h
w ʾḫrt -h
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Translation
S¹ʿd priest of Ḏ-
ġbt performed the ẓ-
ll-ceremony for Ḏġbt at K-
hl for the sake of his property
in Bdr and so favour him
and his posterity
OCIANA
Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Lines 2–3. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭll h- ṭll for ʾẓll h- ẓll. Line 4. Stiehl followed by Al-Qudrah reads ʿly rather than bʿd. Farès-Drappeau does not read this line. Lines 5–6. Stiehl, followed by Al-Qudra and Farès-Drappeau, does not read these lines. TRANSLATION Al-Qudra uses the translation of CLL 029 by mistake. Line 1. Sima does not translate the word s¹lḥ. Lines 2–3. ʾẓll h- ẓll, Stiehl: '(he) took care of the awning'; Sima: '(he) covered the subterranean water-channel'; Farès-Drappeau: '(he) offered the meat (of the female camel)'. Lines 3–4. b- khl, Stiehl followed by Sima: 'by his abilities'; Abū l-Ḥasan: 'in the month Khl'. Line 4. bʿd, Sima: 'in the direction of'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 15–16, for the place name Bdr. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary
The inscription is in relief.

Editio Princeps
Sima 1999: 8-9

Technique
In relief
Direction of Script
Horizontal line right to left

Associated Inscriptions
It is below U 011, to the right of U 013 and above U 007

  • [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 113–115 Plate 4
  • 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 Unpublished MA Thesis, Epigraphy Section, Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, Yarmouk University, Irbid. 1993.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 207
  • 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 8–9
  • [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, 30–31 Plate 33
Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Deity, Isolated Prayer, Place-name, Religion
Old OCIANA ID
#0037692
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