Al-ʿUḏayb 062
Text Information
- Siglum
- Al-ʿUḏayb 062
- Transliteration
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ḍbʿ / bn ʾs¹d / ʾẓ-
ll / l- ḏġbt ʿly
---- {l-} {-h} b- bdr
[f] [r]ḍ -hOCIANA - Translation
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By / son of ʾs¹d Ḍbʿ son of ʾs¹d per-
formed the ẓll-ceremony for Ḏġbt for
---- {belongs} {to him} in Bdr
{and so} {favour} himOCIANA - 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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Lines 1–2. 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".
- Editio Princeps
- OCIANA
- Field Collector
- Christian Julien Robin
- Technique
- Incised
- Direction of Script
- Horizontal line right to left
- Associated Inscriptions
- It is below AH 008 and AH 008.1, to the left of Al-ʿUḏayb 061, and above U 073 and U 074
- [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
- The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
- Date Found
- 2009
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Deity, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Place-name, Religion
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0038427
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Updated
10 Jul, 2025
by
Michael Macdonald
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OCIANA,. 'Al-ʿUḏayb 062.' OCIANA. 10 Jul, 2025. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/15399. Accessed: 06 Aug, 2025.