U 118

Siglum: U 118
Alternative Sigla: AH 149
Transliteration: ʿbds²hr/[{b}{n}/zkyh ʾẓll/{l-} ḏġbt bʿ– d/s²ym -h/f {r}ḍ -h/w {s¹}– [ʿ]d -h
Translation: ʿbds²hr {son of} Zkyh performed the ẓll-ceremony {for} Ḏġbt for the sake of his field and so {favour} him and {help} him

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: TEXT Line 1. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʿbds²rr rather than ʿbds²hr and znyh for zkyh; Sima: ----kyh for zkyh. Line 2. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭll for ʾẓll. Line 3. Abū l-Ḥasan: b- bdr after s²ym. Lines 3–4. Abū l-Ḥasan: gmd -h for {s¹}[ʿ]d -h. TRANSLATION Line 2. ʾẓll, Sima: '(he) covered (the subterranean water-channel)'. Lines 2–3. bʿd, Sima: 'in the direction of'. Line 3. s²ym, Abū l-Ḥasan: 'black camels'. DISCUSSION Sima 1999: 104, for s²ym 'cultivated area, field'. 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 inside the gorge
Original Reading Credit: OCIANA
Original Translation Credit: OCIANA

Associated Signs: Cartouche
Associated Inscriptions: It is below U 117 and to the left of AH 163 and above U 112

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 318–319 Plate 17
Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 31, 194 Plate 26b
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