U 083
Text Information
- Siglum
- U 083
- Transliteration
- b{n}tl/bn ---- ʾẓll/l- ḏġ– bt/b- bd[r] f rḍ [-h] [/] [w] [s¹] ʿd -h
- Translation
- {Bntl} son of ---- performed the ẓll-ceremony for Ḏġ– bt in {Bdr} and so favour {him} {and} {help} him
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- TEXT Line 1. Sima does not read this line. TRANSLATION Line 2. ʾẓll, Sima: '(he) covered (the subterranean water-channel)'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 15–16, for the place name Bd[r].
- Commentary
- The inscription is difficult to read. The condition of the rock made it hard for the carver to incise the letters clearly. The last two lines do not align with the rest of the text. 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".
- Provenance
- Al-ʿUḏayb (Jabal ʿIkmah). The inscription is chiselled on a rock inside the gorge
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- In relief
- Associated Inscriptions
- It is to the right of U 084
- Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 25 Plate 20a
- Hidalgo-Chacón Díez, M. del C. Place names in the Dadanitic inscriptions of al-ʿUḏayb. Adumatu 30, 2014: 15-30
- Site
- The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Deity, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Place-name, Religion
- Script
- Dadanitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0037713
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