U 087

Siglum
U 087
Alternative Sigla
AH 086
Transliteration
ʿṣʾl[ / ]bnt
ʿbdḏ{ġ}tb
ʾẓlt / h- ẓll
l- ḏġbt / ʿly- / ḏ- kn l- -h / b- bd[r] / f rḍ -h
[w] {m} l -h
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Translation
By / son of ʿṣʾl daughter of
{ʿbdḏġtb}
performed the ẓll-ceremony
for Ḏġbt for that which belongs to her in {Bdr} and so favour her
{and} {what} belongs to her
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Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Lines 1–3. These lines are not read by Sima. Line 2. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʿbd[ḫrg] for ʿbdḏ----tb. Line 3. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭlt h- ṭll for ʾẓlt h- ẓll. Line 4. Sima does not read l- ḏġbt. Line 5. Sima does not read this line. TRANSLATION Lines 1–3. Sima does not translate these lines. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 15–16, for the place name Bd[r]. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary
Line 2. It seems that ḏ{ġ}tb is a metathesis for ḏ{ġ}bt in the theophoric element of the compound name. Line 4. This line is longer than those above and below it. Line 5. It is not certain that this line belongs to this inscription. It is not aligned on the left with the previous lines and requires the tentative restoration of [w] at the beginning to make sense.

Editio Princeps
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Technique
Incised
Direction of Script
Horizontal line right to left

Associated Inscriptions
It is to the right of U 088

  • [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 233–234 Plate 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
  • [U] Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 26 Plate 21a
Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Deity, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Place-name, Religion, Women
Old OCIANA ID
#0037710
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