U 009

Siglum
U 009
Alternative Sigla
D 106, AH 049, Al-Qudrah 1993: 18-19, no. 13, Stiehl A 13
Transliteration
ʿbdʾs¹ / bn / ws¹ṭ / ʾẓll / l- ḏ-
ġbt / b- khl / bʿd / nḫl -h
w dṯʾ -h / b- bdr / f rḍ -h / w ʾ-
ḫrt -h
OCIANA
Translation
By -h son of ʿbdʾs¹ son of Ws¹ṭ performed the ẓll-ceremony for
Ḏġbt at Khl for the sake of his palm trees
and his crops of the season of the later rains at Bdr and so favour him and
his posterity
OCIANA
Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 1. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭll rather than ʾẓll. TRANSLATION Lines 1–2. ʾẓll, Stiehl: '(he) took care of the awning'; Al-Qudrah: '(he) constructed (the awning)'; Sima: '(he) covered (the subterranean water-channel) '; Farès-Drappeau: '(he) offered (the sacrifice)'. Line 2. 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'; nḫl -h, Farès-Drappeau: 'his date harvest'. Line 3. dṯʾ, Stiehl followed by Al-Qudrah, Abū l-Ḥasan and Farès-Drappeau: 'the spring harvest'; Sima: '[his] spring field'. Lines 3–4. ʾḫrt -h, Farès-Drappeau: 'he guided him'. DISCUSSION Macdonald 1992: 2–3, 7 for dṯʾ. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 15–16, 20–22, for the place names Bdr and Khl.
Commentary
The inscription is in relief. Lines 4–5. The mason clearly ran out of space at the end of line 4 and so had to incise the last three letters in a small hollow just above the beginning of U 010.

Editio Princeps
Stiehl 1971: 21

Technique
In relief
Direction of Script
Horizontal line right to left

Associated Inscriptions
It is below U 004, to the left of U 005, and above U 010

  • [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 156–158 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 Unpublished MA Thesis, Epigraphy Section, Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, Yarmouk University, Irbid. 1993.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
  • Hidalgo-Chacón Díez, M. del C. Place names in the Dadanitic inscriptions of al-ʿUḏayb. Adumatu 30, 2014: 15-30
  • [MST] Macdonald, M.C.A. The Seasons and Transhumance in the Safaitic Inscriptions. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland 3rd. series, 2, 1992: 1-11.
  • [U] Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 7–8 Plate 2a, 3b
  • [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 Plate 19
Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Agriculture, Deity, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Place-name, Religion, Season
Old OCIANA ID
#0037695
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