U 125
Text Information
- Siglum
- U 125
- Transliteration
- ʿbdyṯʿ/b[n] ---- ʾẓl l- ḏġbt b- khl/ʿly- ----
- Translation
- ʿbdyṯʿ {son of} ---- performed the ẓll-ceremony for Ḏġbt at Khl for ----
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- TRANSLATION Line 2. ʾẓl, Sima: '(he) covered (the subterranean water-channel)'. Line 3. b- khl, Sima: 'by his abilities'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 20–22, for the place name Khl. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
- Commentary
- Sima's reading. Line 2. The verb ʾẓl 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, ʾẓl and ʾẓl 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
- Sima 1999: 32
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Incised
- Associated Inscriptions
- It is above U 126 and to the left of U 124
- Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 32 Plate 28b
- 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
- Site
- The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Deity, Genealogy, Place-name, Religion
- Script
- Dadanitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0037723
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