U 081

Siglum: U 081
Alternative Sigla: AH 139
Transliteration: dʿṯh/bn/ḥbbh ʾẓll/b- khl/l- ḏġb– t/bʿd/ml -h/f rḍ -h/w ʾḫrt -h
Translation: Dʿṯh son of Ḥbbh performed the ẓll-ceremony at Khl for Ḏġ– bt for the sake of his property and so favour him and his posterity

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TEXT Line 1. Sima: kʿ[l] rather than ḥbbh; Abū l-Ḥasan: ḥmlh rather than ḥbbh. Line 2. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭll rather than ʾẓll. TRANSLATION Line 2. ʾẓll, Sima: '(he) covered (the subterranean water-channel)'. Line 2. b- khl, Abū l-Ḥasan: 'in the month Khl'; Sima: 'by his abilities'. Line 3. bʿd, Sima: 'in the direction of'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 20–22, for the place name Khl. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary: 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 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 25
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