U 055.1

Text Information

Siglum
U 055.1
Transliteration
----kdh / bn ---- ----zd / ʾgw / l- ḏġ[b][t] h- ẓll ----ʿ---- ----m---- t f rḍ -h w s¹ʿd -h
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Translation
By / son of ---- ----kdh son of ---- ----zd organized for {Ḏġbt} the ẓll-ceremony ----ʿ---- ----m---- t and so favour him and help him
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Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary
This inscription is very close to U 055, but was not published by Sima 1999. Parts of lines 1–4 are illegible on the only available photograph.

Editio Princeps
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Technique
Incised
Direction of Script
Horizontal line right to left

Associated Inscriptions
It is below U 055, to the right of U 065 and 065.1 (unp.), to the left of U unp. 038 and above U 056

  • 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
  • [U] Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 128
Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Deity, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Religion
Old OCIANA ID
#0038352
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Updated 08 Jan, 2025 by OCIANA