Al-ʿUḏayb 059
Text Information
- Siglum
- Al-ʿUḏayb 059
- Transliteration
-
ġs¹{m} / bnt / ʾmt{b}-
ʿs¹m{n} / ʾẓlt / h- ẓ[l][l]
l- ḏġbt / bʿd / dṯʾ -h
b- bnʾl / f rḍ -hOCIANA - Translation
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By / son of / {Ġs¹m} daughter of {ʾmtb-
ʿs¹mn} performed the {ẓll-ceremony}
for Ḏġbt for the sake of her crops of the season of the later rains
in Bnʾl and so favour herOCIANA - Language and Script
- Dadanitic
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
DISCUSSION: Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 17, for the place name Bnʾl. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
- Editio Princeps
- OCIANA
- Field Collector
- Christian Julien Robin
- Technique
- Incised
- Direction of Script
- Horizontal line right to left
- Associated Inscriptions
- It is below Al-ʿUḏayb 058 and above U 058
- [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, Place-name, Religion, Season, Women
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0038668
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Updated
10 Jul, 2025
by
Michael Macdonald
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OCIANA,. 'Al-ʿUḏayb 059.' OCIANA. 10 Jul, 2025. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/15550. Accessed: 18 Feb, 2026.