Al-ʿUḏayb 065
Text Information
- Siglum
- Al-ʿUḏayb 065
- Transliteration
-
ʿbdḏġbt / s¹l[ḥ] ḏġ[b][t]
w wʾl / ʾ{b} {-h}
ʾẓllw / l- ḏġ-
bt / h- ẓll
---- ḏhʾ / m
---- f rḍ -h[m]
w s¹ʿ{d} [-h][m]OCIANA - Translation
-
ʿbdḏġbt {priest of} {Ḏġbt}
and Wʾl {his} {father}
performed for Ḏġ-
bt the ẓll-ceremony
---- ḏhʾ m
---- and so favour {them}
and {help} {them}OCIANA - Language and Script
- Dadanitic
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
DISCUSSION: Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
- Commentary
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It seems that the author of the inscription forgot to carve ḏġbt after s¹lḥ and then added it above the end of line 1.
- Editio Princeps
- OCIANA
- Field Collector
- Christian Julien Robin
- Technique
- Incised
- Direction of Script
- Horizontal line right to left
- [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. 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, Isolated Prayer, Relatives, Religion
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0038430
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Updated
10 Jul, 2025
by
Michael Macdonald
Cite this Site
OCIANA,. 'Al-ʿUḏayb 065.' OCIANA. 10 Jul, 2025. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/15402. Accessed: 05 Aug, 2025.