Al-ʿUḏayb 044

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Siglum: Al-ʿUḏayb 044
Transliteration: s¹lmn s¹lḥ ḏġbt / ʾẓll
b- khl / bʿd / dṯʾ -h / b- tr
f rḍ -h
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Translation: S¹lmn priest of Ḏġbt performed the ẓll-ceremony
at Khl for the sake of his crops of the season of the later rains in Tr
and so favour him
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Language and Script: Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: DISCUSSION: Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 18, 20–22, for the place name Khl. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary: Line 1: The verb ʾẓll means "he performed the ẓll-ceremony", the exact nature of which we do not know. Usually, but not always, this verb is followed by the noun h-ẓll meaning "the ẓll-ceremony". Thus, ʾẓll and ʾẓll h-ẓll both mean "he performed the ẓll-ceremony". The place name at the end of line 2 is clearly tr, rather than the well attested place-name ṯr which is found in several of the ẓll texts. We have not emended it since it is perfectly possible that both names existed.

[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

Updated 09 Jul, 2025 by Michael Macdonald

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