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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