U 075

Siglum: U 075
Transliteration: qnh/bnt/ʾqḥwnh w {ḫ}tn -h/ʿbb/ʾẓllw[/]l- ḏġ– [b][t][/]bʿd/dṯʾ -h/b- hm– ḏhb/f rḍ -hm/w ʾṯb- hm
Translation: Qnh dauther of ʾqḥwnh and her {relative in-law} ʿbb performed the ẓll-ceremony for {Ḏġ– bt} for the sake of his/her crops of the season of the later rains in h-M– ḏhb and so favour them and reward them

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TRANSLATION Line 2. ʾẓllw, Sima: '(they) covered (the subterranean water-channel)'. Line 3. bʿd, Sima: 'in the direction of'; dṯʾ, Sima: 'the spring field'. DISCUSSION Macdonald 1992: 2–3, 7 for dṯʾ. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 23, for the place name h-Mḏhb.
Commentary: Line 2. The verb ʾẓllw means "they 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, ʾẓllw and ʾẓllw h-ẓll both mean "they performed the ẓll-ceremony". Line 3. The enclitic pronoun of the third singular masculine can refer both to Qhn or to her relative.

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

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
Macdonald, M.C.A. The Seasons and Transhumance in the Safaitic Inscriptions. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland 3rd. series, 2, 1992: 1-11.
Hidalgo-Chacón Díez, M. del C. Place names in the Dadanitic inscriptions of al-ʿUḏayb. Adumatu 30, 2014: 15-30

Current Location: In situ
Subjects: Agriculture, Deity, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Place-name, Relatives, Religion, Season, Women
Script: Dadanitic
Old OCIANA ID: #0037719
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