U 011

Siglum: U 011
Alternative Sigla: D 122, Al-Qudrah 1993: 23, no. 29, Stiehl A 29
Transliteration: ʿbdʾs¹ / bn / ʿgry
ʾẓll / h- ẓll / b-
khl / l- ḏ{ġ}{b}[t] <<>>
bʿd[ / ]{n}ḫl -h / b- bdr
f rḍ -h / w ʾḫrt -h
OCIANA
Translation: By / son of / ʿbdʾs¹ son of ʿgry
performed the ẓll-ceremony at
Khl for {Ḏġbt}
for the sake of his {palm trees} in Bdr
and so favour him and his posterity
OCIANA
Language and Script: Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TEXT Line 1. Stiehl followed by Al-Qudrah and Farès-Drappeau does not read the personal names in this line. TRANSLATION Lines 2–3. Stiehl: '(he) took care of the awning by his abilities for Ḏġbt'; Al-Qudrah: '(he) constructed the awning professionally for Ḏġbt'; Sima: '(he) covered the subterranean water-channel by his abilities for Ḏġbt'; Farès-Drappeau: '(he) offered the sacrifice at Khl to Ḏġbt'. Line 4. bʿd, Sima: 'in the direction of'; Farès-Drappeau: bʿd nḫl -h 'on behalf of his date harvest'. Line 5. ʾḫrt -h, Farès-Drappeau: 'he has guided him'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 15–16, 20–22, for the place names Bdr and Khl. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt..
Commentary: The inscription is in relief. The photograph is of poor quality and the reading is therefore not secure. The reading of the divine name ḏġbt is very doubtful but it is difficult to see what else it can be in the context. Atr the end of this line there appears to be l or perhaps a f which seems to makes no sense in this context.

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 Unpublished MA Thesis, Epigraphy Section, Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, Yarmouk University, Irbid. 1993.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 206
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. p 8
[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, 29–30 Plate 32

Current Location: In situ
Subjects: Agriculture, Deity, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Place-name, Religion
Old OCIANA ID: #0037693
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