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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
Translation
----kdh son of ---- ----zd organized for {Ḏġbt} the ẓll-ceremony ----ʿ---- ----m---- t and so favour him and help him

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.

Provenance
Al-ʿUḏayb (Jabal ʿIkmah)
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Incised

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

  • Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 128
  • 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, Isolated Prayer, Religion
Script
Dadanitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0038352
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