U 077

Siglum
U 077
Alternative Sigla
D 138, AH 005
Transliteration
mhrh / bn
gdn / ḏ- wṯmt
ʾẓll / h- ẓl-
l / l- ḏġbt / f
rḍ -h / w ʾḫrt -h
OCIANA
Translation
By -h son of Mhrh son of
Gdn of the lineage of Wṯmt
performed the ẓll-
ceremony for Ḏġbt and so
favour him and his posterity
OCIANA
Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Line 1. Sima: mhlh rather than mrh. Lines 3–4. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭll h- ṭll for ʾẓll h- ẓll. TRANSLATION Lines 3–4. ʾẓll h- ẓll, Sima: '(he) covered the subterranean water-channel'; Farès-Drappeau: '(he) offered the sacrifice'. Line 5. ʾḫrt -h, Farès-Drappeau: 'he has guided him'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary
Line 5. The last letter of this line, h, does not place aligned with the last letters of lines above it.

Editio Princeps
Farès-Drappeau 2005: 214

Technique
Incised
Direction of Script
Horizontal line right to left

Associated Inscriptions
It is to the left of AH 004

  • [AH] Abū ʾl-Ḥasan, Ḥ.ʿA.D. Qirāʾah li-kitābāt liḥyāniyyah min ǧabal ʿakmah bi-minṭaqat al-ʿulā. Al-Riyāḍ: Maktabat al-malik fahd al-waṭaniyyah, 1997. pp 71–72 Plate 1
  • [D] Farès-Drappeau, S. Dédan et Liḥyān. Histoire des Arabes aux confins des pouvoirs perse et hellénistique (IVe–IIe s. avant l'ère chrétienne). (Travaux de la maison de l'Orient, 42). Lyon: Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée — Jean Pouilloux, 2005. pp 214 Plate XXVII
  • 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
  • [U] Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 24 Plate 18a, 18b, 19a, 28a
Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Deity, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Lineage, Religion
Old OCIANA ID
#0037717
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