Al-ʿUḏayb 130
Text Information
- Siglum
- Al-ʿUḏayb 130
- Transliteration
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ḏ bs²rh / bn / klb
ʾẓll / bʿd / nḫl -h / b- bdr
f rḍ -h / w ʾḫrt -hOCIANA - Translation
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By / son of / Ḏ Bs²rh son of Klb
performed the ẓll-ceremony for the sake of his palm trees in Bdr
and so favour him and his posterityOCIANA - Language and Script
- Dadanitic
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
DISCUSSION: Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 15–16, for the place name Bdr.
- Commentary
-
Line 1: The letter ḏ should be considered as an apotropaic sign.
- 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. Place names in the Dadanitic inscriptions of al-ʿUḏayb. Adumatu 30, 2014: 15-30
- Site
- The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
- Date Found
- 2009
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Agriculture, Apotropaic sign, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Place-name, Religion
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0038496
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Updated
10 Jul, 2025
by
Michael Macdonald
Cite this Site
OCIANA,. 'Al-ʿUḏayb 130.' OCIANA. 10 Jul, 2025. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/15466. Accessed: 14 Aug, 2025.