U 126
Text Information
- Siglum
- U 126
- Transliteration
- ʿyḏh/ḏt/ṣd/ʾgt l- ḏġb{t}/{h-} ẓll/ʿly-/n{ḫ}– l -h/b- bdr/[w] b- ḏʾdn/f r– ḍ -h/w s¹ʿd -h
- Translation
- ʿyḏh of the family of Ṣd organized for {Ḏġbt} {the} ẓll-ceremony for her {palm trees} in Bdr {and} in Ḏʾdn and so favour her and help her
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- TRANSLATION Lines 1–2. ʾgt h- ẓll, Sima: '(she) cleared out the subterranean water-channel'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 15–16, 18, for the place names Bdr and Ḏʾdn. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
- Commentary
- Line 1. This is one of the rare cases in Dadanitic where we find the feminine (ḏt) of the pronoun ḏ.
- 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
- Associated Signs
- Cartouche
- Associated Inscriptions
- It is below U 125 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
- Agriculture, Deity, Isolated Prayer, Lineage, Place-name, Religion
- Script
- Dadanitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0037724
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