U 004

Siglum
U 004
Alternative Sigla
D 109, AH 053, Al-Qudrah 1993: 19, no. 16, Stiehl A 16, van den Branden 1969: 76–77, no. 37, Altheim & Stiehl 1968: 30, C
Transliteration
ʾnḥh / bn / hnʾ
s¹lḥ / ḏġbt / ʾfy
h- ẓll / l- ḏġbt / ḏh
b- khl / f rḍ -h / w s¹ʿd -h
OCIANA
Translation
By / son of / ʾnḥh son of Hnʾ
priest of Ḏġbt accomplished
this ẓll-ceremony for Ḏġbt
at Khl 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: ʾnmh for ʾnḥh. Line 3. Abū l-Ḥasan: h- ṭll for h- ẓll. Line 4. Altheim and Stiehl followed by van den Branden: b- bnl for b- khl. TRANSLATION Line 2. s¹lḥ, Altheim and Stiehl: '(he) prepared'; van den Branden: '(he) recovered'; Sima does not translate the word s¹lḥ. Line 2. ʾfy, Abū l-Ḥasan: '(he) offered'. Lines 2–3. ʾfy h- ẓll, Altheim and Stiehl: '(he) set up this awning'; van den Branden: '(he) renovated this cistern'; Stiehl: '(he) gave this awning'; Al-Qudrah: '(he) constructed this awning'; Sima: '(he) maintained the subterranean water-channel'; 'Farès-Drappeau: '(he) paid for this meat (of the female camel)'. Line 4. b- khl, Stiehl followed by Sima: 'by his abilities'; Al-Qudrah: 'professionally'; Abū l-Ḥasan: 'in the month Khl'. DISCUSSION Macdonald 2004: 506 §4.1.8.2, 2; 512 §(11). Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 20–22, for the place name Khl. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary
The inscription is in relief. Line 1. This is shorter than the inscriptions around it because it has been fitted into the space left by the last line of U 008, which must therefore be earlier than U 004. Line 3. The placing of the demonstrative ḏh after ḏġbt, rather than immediately after h- ẓll is at present unique and may have been an error (see Macdonald 2004: 526 §5.1.4).

Editio Princeps
Stiehl 1971: 22-23

Technique
In relief
Direction of Script
Horizontal line right to left

Associated Inscriptions
It is below U 003 and 008, and above U 005 and 009

  • [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 164–165 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 Unpublished MA Thesis, Epigraphy Section, Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, Yarmouk University, Irbid. 1993.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 200 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. pp 6–7 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, 22–23 Plate 21
  • 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, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Place-name, Religion
Old OCIANA ID
#0037700
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