U 040.1
Text Information
- Siglum
- U 040.1
- Transliteration
- ʾrs²/ʾy{ḏ} ʾẓll h- ẓll hny/hn- ʾ– ḫrt
- Translation
- ʾrs² {ʾyḏ} performed the ẓll-ceremony may [the deity] aid the posterity
Interpretation
- Commentary
- The text is very close to U 040, but was not published by Sima 1999. In Classical Arabic hanaʾa means among other things "to aid, succour, defend" (Lane 1863-1893: 2902c)
- Provenance
- Al-ʿUḏayb (Jabal ʿIkmah)
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Incised
- Associated Inscriptions
- It is to the left of U 040 and U unp. 056
- Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999.
- Lane, E.W. An Arabic-English Lexicon, Derived from the Best and Most Copious Eastern Sources. (Volume 1 in 8 parts [all published]). London: Williams & Norgate, 1863-1893.
- Site
- The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Isolated Prayer, Religion
- Script
- Dadanitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0038351
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