U 091

Siglum
U 091
Alternative Sigla
AH 082
Transliteration
ʿbdḫrg / bn / s²nʾ-
h / ʾẓll / h- ẓll
bʿd / ṯbrt -h / b-
ḏṯʿʿl / w b- ḏ-
ʾ---- / f rḍ -h / w ʾ-
ḫrt -h / w s¹ʿ{d} -h
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Translation
By / son of / ʿbdḫrg son of S²nʾ-
h performed the ẓll-ceremony
for the sake of his grain in
Ḏṯʿʿl and in Ḏ-
ʾ---- and so favour him and
his posterity and {help} him
OCIANA
Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 2. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭll h- ṭll for ʾẓll h- ẓll. Line 5. Abū l-Ḥasan followed by Sima: ḏʾ[ḏn] at the beginning of this line. Since in the inscriptions from al-ʿUḏayb occurs the place name ḏʾḏn beside ḏʾdn, both of them are possible to be restored. Line 6. Abū l-Ḥasan: {ʾṯb} -h rather than s¹ʿ{d}. TRANSLATION Line 2. ʾẓll h- ẓll, Sima: '(he) covered the subterranean water-channel'. Line 3. bʿd ṯbrt -h, Sima: 'in the direction of his fallow field'; ṯbrt -h, Abū l-Ḥasan: 'his agricultural field'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 19, for the place name Ḏṯʿʿl.
Commentary
Line 4. We follow Farès-Drappeau (2005: 206, D 121) in taking ṯbrt as possibly cognate with Hebrew šeber "grain". Though this is by no means certain it fits the context well. See also the discussion on Sima 1999: 104.

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

Associated Inscriptions
It is to the left of U 090

  • [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 224–226 Plate 11
  • Hidalgo-Chacón Díez, M. del C. Place names in the Dadanitic inscriptions of al-ʿUḏayb. Adumatu 30, 2014: 15-30
  • [U] Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 27 Plate 21b
Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Agriculture, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Place-name, Religion
Old OCIANA ID
#0037706
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