Al-ʿUḏayb 071

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Al-ʿUḏayb 071
Transliteration
ʾmtʿzy / bn / nfy /
ḏ bs¹n / ʾẓll /
l- ḏġbt / b- khl
bʿd / ʾnḫl -h
w ʾdṯʾ -h / b- bdr
f rḍ -h / w ʾḫrt -h
OCIANA
Translation
By / son of / ʾmtʿzy son of Nfy
of the lineage of Bs¹n performed the ẓll-ceremony for Ḏġbt at Khl
for the sake of his palm trees
and his crops of the season of the later rains in Bdr
and so favour him and his posterity
OCIANA
Language and Script
Dadanitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus

DISCUSSION: Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 15–16, 20–22, for the place names Bdr and Khl. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.

Commentary

Line 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".

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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. 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
Date Found
2009
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Agriculture, Deity, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Lineage, Place-name, Religion, Season
Old OCIANA ID
#0038473
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Updated 10 Jul, 2025 by Michael Macdonald

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OCIANA,. 'Al-ʿUḏayb 071.' OCIANA. 10 Jul, 2025. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/15443. Accessed: 25 Jan, 2026.