U 006

Siglum
U 006
Alternative Sigla
D 111, AH 050, Al-Qudrah 1993: 20, no. 18, Stiehl A 18
Transliteration
mrʾh / bnt / wdʿlh
ḏ- wṯmt / ʾẓlt / h- ẓl-
l / l- ḏġbt / bʿd / ml -h
b- tqmm / f rḍ -h / w ʾḫ-
rt -h / w s¹ʿd -h
OCIANA
Translation
By -h son of Mrʾh daughter of Wdʿlh
of the lineage of Wṯmt performed the ẓl-
l-ceremony for Ḏġbt for the sake of her property
in Tqmm and so favour her and her descen-
dants and help her
OCIANA
Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 2. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭlt h- ṭll for ʾẓlt h- ẓll. Line 4. Stiehl followed by Al-Qudrah and Farès-Drappeau: tymm for tqmm. TRANSLATION Lines 2–3. ʾẓlt h- ẓll, Stiehl: '(she) took care of the awning'; Al-Qudrah: '(she) constructed the awning'; Sima: '(she) covered the subterranean water-channel'; Farès-Drappeau: '(she) offered the sacrifice'. Line 3. bʿd, Sima: 'in the direction of'; bʿd ml -h, Farès-Drappeau: 'on behalf of her winter harvest'. DISCUSSION Macdonald 2004: 506–507, 510, 515. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 18, for the place name Tqmm. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary
The inscription is in relief.

Editio Princeps
Sima 1999: 7

Technique
In relief
Direction of Script
Horizontal line right to left

Associated Inscriptions
It is below U 005, to the right of U 009 and 010, to the left of U 001 and 002, and above U 006

  • [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 158–160 Plate 7
  • 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 Unpublished MA Thesis, Epigraphy Section, Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, Yarmouk University, Irbid. 1993.
  • [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 201 Plate XXVII
  • 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 7 Plate 2a
  • [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, 23–24 Plate 22
Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Agriculture, Deity, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Lineage, Place-name, Religion, Women
Old OCIANA ID
#0037698
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