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U 045.2

Text Information

Siglum
U 045.2
Transliteration
ḏ/gḏmh/bn/hns¹k
Translation
ḏ Gḏmh son of Hns¹k

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Sima: mḏhbh for mḏmh. TRANSLATION Sima does not translate this inscription.
Commentary
Sima reads U 045.1 and U 045.2 as one text but it is clear from the photograph that they are two different graffiti.

Provenance
Al-ʿUḏayb (Jabal ʿIkmah). The inscription is incised on one side of the huge rock, which Stiehl (1971: 4) called 'Block C'

Associated Signs
ḏ sign at the beginning of the inscription
Associated Inscriptions

  • Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999.
  • Stiehl, R. Neue liḥyānische Inschriften aus al-ʿUḏaib I mit einem Nachtrag M. Höfners. Pages 3-40, 565-566, 569-594, pl. 1-45 in F. Altheim and R. Stiehl (eds), Christentum am Roten Meer. 1. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1971.
Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Dadanitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0053899
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