U 010

Siglum
U 010
Alternative Sigla
D 107, AH 048, Al-Qudrah 1993: 19, no. 14, Stiehl A 14
Transliteration
ʿbdʾtbl / bn / zdḥmm
ṯwbt / nḏr / h- ẓll / l- ḏġbt
b- khl / bʿd / ml -h / b- ṯr / f rḍ -h
w s¹ʿd -h / w ʾḫrt -h
kll -h
OCIANA
Translation
By / son of / ʿbdʾtbl son of Zdḥmm
Ṯwbt vowed [to perform] the ẓll-ceremony for Ḏġbt
at Khl for the sake of his property in Ṯr and so favour him
and help him and his posterity
all of it
OCIANA
Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 2. Abū l-Ḥasan: h- ṭll for h- ẓll. Line 4. Stiehl followed by Al-Qudrah and Farès-Drappeau considered the incised w on the piece of rock immediately after w ʾḫrt -h as part of this text and read w kll -h. However, "and his posterity and all of him/it" makes no sense and is anyway never found in these contexts where the expression is always w ʾḫrt -h kll -h "his posterity all of it", i.e. "all his descendants". Moreover, it is clear from the photograph that not only is a w inscribed on this piece of rock but the letters r [word-divider] w, which would have no place in line 4 of U 010. TRANSLATION Line 2. h- ẓll, Stiehl: 'the awning'; Al-Qudrah: 'the awning'; Sima: 'the subterranean water-channel'; Line 3. b -khl, Stiehl followed by Sima: 'by his abilities'; Al-Qudrah: 'professionally'; Abū l-Ḥasan: 'in the month Khl'; bʿd, Sima: 'in the direction of'; Farès-Drappeau: 'on behalf of'; ml -h, Farès-Drappeau: 'his winter harvest'. Line 4. ʾḫrt -h, Farès-Drappeau: 'he has guided him'. DISCUSSION Macdonald 2004: 512. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 18, 20–22, for the place names Ṯr and Khl. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary
The inscription is in relief. It is clear from the arrangement of the ends of the lines of U 010 that U 016, to the left of it, was incised first, since lines 1 and 3 of U 010 have been made shorter than line 2 to avoid encroaching on U 016. Possibly because part of the rock face was already broken, the carver of U 016 started the final line further to the right than the others and it can be seen that the carver of U 010 left this piece of the rock intact and completed his text (line 5) below the beginning of line 4.

Editio Princeps
Sima 1997: 8

Technique
In relief
Direction of Script
Horizontal line right to left

Associated Inscriptions
It is below U 009, and between U 006 and U 016

  • [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 154–156 Plate 7
  • 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 198–199
  • 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
  • Macdonald, M.C.A. Ancient North Arabian. Pages 488-533 in R.D. Woodard (ed.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
  • [U] Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. p 8 Plate 2a, 3b, 4a, 4b
  • [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, 21–22 Plate 19
Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Deity, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Place-name, Religion
Old OCIANA ID
#0037694
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