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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

U 082

Text Information

Siglum
U 082
Transliteration
{b}s¹lm/bn/ʿlḏ[ġ][b][t] ʾgw ---- b- khl bʿd/ml -h/b- ḏʿmn f rḍ -h/w ʾḫrt [-h]
Translation
{Bs¹lm} son of {ʿlḏġbt} organized ---- at Khl for the sake of his property in Ḏʿmn and so favour him and {his} posterity

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TRANSLATION Line 2. ʾgw ---- b- khl, Sima: '(he) cleared out ---- by his abilities'. Line 3. bʿd, Sima: 'in the direction of'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 19–22, for the place names Ḏʿmn and Khl.
Commentary
According to Sima (1999: 25) no photograph or copy is available. We have therefore followed Sima's reading.

Provenance
Al-ʿUḏayb (Jabal ʿIkmah). The inscription is chiselled on a rock inside the gorge
Original Reading Credit
Sima 1999: 25
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
No copy/photo

  • Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 25
  • 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
Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Place-name, Religion
Script
Dadanitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0037714
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