Al-ʿUḏayb 036
Text Information
- Siglum
- Al-ʿUḏayb 036
- Transliteration
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ʾmt----ʿ----
----ns¹ʾ / ʾẓll
h- ẓll / [l-] ḏġ[b][t] / b-
ʿd [ḏ-] kn / l- -h / b- bd-
r ---- f rḍ -h
[w] [ʾ]ḫrt -hOCIANA - Translation
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ʾmt----ʿ----
----ns¹ʾ performed
the ẓll-ceremony {for} {Ḏġbt} for
the sake of {what} belongs to her in Bd-
r ---- and so favour her
{and} her {posterity}OCIANA - Language and Script
- Dadanitic
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
DISCUSSION: Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 15–16 for the place name Bdr. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128 for the divine name Ḏġbt.
- Commentary
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The bad condition of the rock makes it difficult to read the end of line 1 and the beginning of lines 2 and 5. Since the author's name begins with ʾmt- it is highly likely that she was a woman and therefore the clitic pronouns later in the text have been taken to be feminine.
- Editio Princeps
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Incised
- Direction of Script
- Horizontal line right to left
- Associated Inscriptions
- It is to the left of Al-ʿUḏayb 037
- [Al-ʿUḏayb] Dadanitic inscriptions from Al-Udayb photographed by Ch. Robin, L. Nehmé, and J. Ryckmans, and published on OCIANA
- 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
- Al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Deity, Isolated Prayer, Place-name, Religion, Women
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0038401
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Updated
09 Jul, 2025
by
Michael Macdonald
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OCIANA,. 'Al-ʿUḏayb 036.' OCIANA. 09 Jul, 2025. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/15375. Accessed: 07 Feb, 2026.