U 085

Siglum: U 085
Alternative Sigla: AH 182
Transliteration: blqṭ/bn/ḫl{d} l- ḏġbt ʾẓll/bʿd/ḏ- kn/l- -h b- bdr/f rḍ -h
Translation: Blqṭ son of {Ḫld} for Ḏġbt performed the ẓll-ceremony for the sake of what belongs to him in Bdr and so favour him

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TEXT Line 1. Abū l-Ḥasan: blqṭy for blqṭ. Line 2. Abū l-Ḥasan transliterates this line after the verb ʾẓll in line 3. Line 3. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭll rather than ʾẓll. Line 4. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʿbd -h rather than b -bdr. TRANSLATION Line 3. ʾẓll bʿd, Sima: '(he) covered (the subterranean water-channel) in the direction of'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 15–16, for the place name Bdr. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary: It seems that the carver incised line 3, and then realised that he/she had forgotten the phrase l- Ḏġbt and so was forced to insert it in the space between lines 1 and 3. Line 3. 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".

Provenance: Al-ʿUḏayb (Jabal ʿIkmah). The inscription is chiselled on a rock the gorge
Original Reading Credit: OCIANA
Original Translation Credit: OCIANA

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Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 26 Plate 20b
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