U 084
Text Information
- Siglum
- U 084
- Transliteration
- ʾfṣh/bn s¹ʿd/ʾẓll h- ẓll/b- kh[l]/l- ḏġbt/bʿd dṯʾ -h/b- ḏṯʿʿ– l/f rḍ -h/w {ʾ}ṯb -h
- Translation
- ʾfṣh son of S¹ʿd performed the ẓll-ceremony at {Khl} for Ḏġbt for the sake of his crops of the season of the later rains in Ḏṯʿʿ– l and so favour him and {reward} him
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- TEXT Line 3. Sima does not read b- Kh[l] but it can be seen on the photograph. The mason omitted the l of Khl probably by haplography. Line 4. Sima restores bʿd, but it can be seen on the photograph. Line 5. Sima restores the b but does not read ḏṯʿʿl, which can be seen on the photograph. Lines 6–7. Sima does not read the l (of ḏṯʿʿl) at the beginning of line 6 and restores the w at the end of that line, although it can be seen on the photograph. He does not read line 7. TRANSLATION Lines 2–3. ʾẓll h- ẓll b- kh[l], Sima: '(he) covered the subterranean water-channel by his abilities'. Line 5. dṯʾ -h, Sima: 'his spring field'. DISCUSSION Macdonald 1992: 2–3, 7 for dṯʾ. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 19–22, for the place names Ḏṯʿʿl and Kh[l]. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
- Commentary
- The condition of the rock did not allow the carver to align the last line with those above it.
- Provenance
- Al-ʿUḏayb (Jabal ʿIkmah). The inscription is chiselled on a rock inside of the gorge
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- In relief
- Associated Inscriptions
- It is to the left of U 083
- Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 25–26 Plate 20a
- 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, Place-name, Religion, Season
- Script
- Dadanitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0037712
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