U 007

Siglum
U 007
Alternative Sigla
D 104, AH 057, Al-Qudrah 1993: 18, no. 11, Stiehl A 11, van den Branden 1969: 76, no. 36, Altheim & Stiehl 1968: 29–30, A
Transliteration
----wh / hḏm
----h / ʾẓll / h- ẓll / n-
ḏr / l- ḏġbt / bʿd / ml -h / f rḍ -h / w
s¹ʿd -h
OCIANA
Translation
By -h son of ----wh Hḏm
----h performed the ẓll-ceremony [in fulfilment of] a
vow to Ḏġbt for the sake of his property and so favour him and
help him
OCIANA
Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 1. Altheim and Stiehl followed by van den Branden: h(s¹)m for hḏm. Abū l-Ḥasan: hḍm for hḏm. Line 2. Altheim and Stiehl followed by van den Branden: yẓll for ʾẓll. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭll h- ṭll for ʾẓll h- ẓll. Line 3. Altheim and Stiehl followed by van den Branden: mlṭ for ml -h. TRANSLATION Line 2. 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 3. bʿd, Altheim and Stiehl followed by van den Branden: 'then'; Sima: 'in the direction of'; nḏr bʿd ml -h, Farès-Drappeau: 'in expiation, on behalf of his abundant harvest'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary
The inscription is in relief. Lines 1–2. The rock is broken above and to the right of the text with the loss of the beginning of the first two lines. U 007 was carved in the small, irregular space remaining between U 003, U 008, and U 014, all of which must have been carved before it. As a result, the lines of U 007 are of different lengths. Because U 008 had already been carved in the space immediately below line 3 of this text, the three letters of line 4 had to be carved in a small space immediately before line 1 of U 008.

Editio Princeps
Stiehl 1971: 19

Technique
In relief
Direction of Script
Horizontal line right to left

Associated Inscriptions
It is to the right of U 014, and above U 008 and U 003

  • [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 173–174 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 Unpublished MA Thesis, Epigraphy Section, Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, Yarmouk University, Irbid. 1993.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 197 Plate XXVI
  • 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 7 Plate 2b, 3a
  • [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, 19 Plate 17, 18
  • 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
Deity, Isolated Prayer, Religion
Old OCIANA ID
#0037697
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