U 095
Text Information
- Siglum
- U 095
- Alternative Sigla
- AH 145
- Transliteration
- tm/bn/ʿyḏ/ḏ– wṯmt/ʾgw/l- ḏġbt/b- khl [h-] [ẓ][l]l/bʿ– d/nḫl -h/w dṯ– ʾ -h/b- bdr/f rḍ -h/w [ʾ]ḫrt [-h]
- Translation
- Tm son of ʿyḏ of the lineage of Wṯmt organized for Ḏġbt at Khl {the} {ẓll-ceremony} for the sake of his palm trees and his crops of the season of the later rains in Bdr and so favour him and {his} {posterity}
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- TEXT Line 4. Abū l-Ḥasan: ṭll ---- [h-] ḏl bʿ for [h-] [ẓ][l]l bʿ. TRANSLATION Line 2. ʾgw, Abū l-Ḥasan: '(he) offered'; Sima: '(he) cleared out'. Line 3. b- khl, Abū l-Ḥasan: 'in the month Khl'; Sima: 'by his abilities'. Lines 4–5. [h-] [ẓ][l]l bʿd, Sima: '[the subterranean water-channel] in the direction of'. Lint 5. dṯʾ -h, Abū l-Ḥasan: 'his spring harvest'; Sima: 'his spring field'. DISCUSSION Macdonald 1992: 2–3, 7 for dṯʾ. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 15–16, 20–22, for the place names Bdr and Khl. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
- Commentary
- Lines 5–7. These lines are carved carelessly with large spaces between the letters.
- Provenance
- Al-ʿUḏayb (Jabal ʿIkmah). The inscription is chiselled on a rock inside the gorge
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Associated Signs
- Cartouche
- Associated Inscriptions
- It is to the right of U 094 and U 093
- 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 312–315 Plate 17
- Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 28 Plate 22a, 22b, 23a
- 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.
- 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
- 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, Season
- Script
- Dadanitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0037702
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