U 093

Siglum
U 093
Alternative Sigla
AH 143
Transliteration
dbʿh / bn / m{g}m
ʾẓll / l- ḏġbt
b- khl / bʿd / nḫl
-h / w dṯʾ -h / b- bd[r]
f rḍ -h / w ʾ{ḫ}-
rt -h / w ʾ----
OCIANA
Translation
By / son of / Dbʿh son of {Mgm}
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 in {Bdr}
and so favour him and his {des-
cendants} and ----
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Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 1. Abū l-Ḥasan: mdm for mgm; Sima: [l]bʿh for dbʿh. Line 5. Sima: w ʾ rather than w ʾ{ḫ}. Line 6. Abū l-Ḥasan restores ʾ[ṯb -h]; Sima: ṯ[bh] w ʾ[ḫrt -h] rather than rt -h/w ʾ---- at the end of this line. TRANSLATION Line 2. ʾẓll, Sima: '(he) covered (the subterranean water-channel)'. Line 3. b- khl, Abū l-Ḥasan: 'in the month Khl'; Sima: 'by his abilities'; bʿd, Sima: 'in the direction of'. Line 4. 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 Bd[r] and Khl. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary
Line 2. The verb ʾẓll means "he performed the ẓll-ceremony", the exact nature of which we do not know. Usually, but not always, this verb is followed by the noun h-ẓll meaning "the ẓll-ceremony". Thus, ʾẓll and ʾẓll h-ẓll both mean "he performed the ẓll-ceremony".

Editio Princeps
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Technique
In relief
Direction of Script
Horizontal line right to left

Associated Inscriptions
It is below U 094, to the right of U 080 and to the left of U 095

  • [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 308–310 Plate 17
  • 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
  • [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 28 Plate 22a, 22b, 23a
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
#0037704
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