U 022 ASNL P/6-7; BILS 39/6-7; Stiehl A 06; QDNL 006; AH 043; D 099
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient North Arabian » Oasis North Arabian » Dadanitic |
| Alphabet | Ancient North Arabian |
| Script typology | Monumental writing |
| Writing technique | Relief |
| Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
GENERAL NOTES
| For discussion, see Déroche and Macdonald (dṯ.) For the place name, see Hidalgo-Chacón Díez. |
TEXT
1 (Ry) s¹lḥt ḏ-Ġbt ʾẓll—
2 t h-ẓll bʿd dṯʾ -[h ]b-Tqmm
3 f-rḍ-h
| Altheim and Stiehl followed by van den Branden read this text as a continuation of U 021. However, it is difficult to see what connection the two texts could have and Stiehl treats it as a separate inscription (A 06). Farès-Drappeau does not read the same text. The phrase f-rḍ-h occurs on an uninscribed patch of rock slightly above and to the left of line 1 of this text, immediately below line 4 of U 025. It is unlikely to belong to U 025 since the same phrase already occurs in line 4 of that text. Sima (p. 11) therefore argued that it belongs to U 022 and placed it at the end of line 1 in his transliteration, but at the end of line 2 (where sense requires it) in his translation. However, it is spatially separate from both these lines and we have therefore attributed it to a ‘line 3’. Stiehl (pp 4-11 (A 01)) followed by al-Qudra (p. 15 (L 001)) and Farès-Drappeau (pp 191-192 (D 94)) took the phrase to be part of U 025. Abū l-Ḥasan (pp 136-138 (AH 039); pp 144-145 (AH 043)) did not read it with either of the texts. | |
| 1-2 | The first two letters of line 1 were read ry, as here, by Altheim and Stiehl followed by van den Branden, but Stiehl followed by Sima did not read them. Abū l-Ḥasan reads only s¹lḥt ḏ-Ġb in line 1. |
| 2 | Abū l-Ḥasan reads h-ṭll for h-ẓll and neither copied nor read the final phrase (b-Tqm[m]). Altheim and Stiehl followed by van den Branden read ḏt for dṯ, and did not read the final phrase (b-Tqm[m]). Stiehl followed by al-Qudra read it as b-Tymm. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 {Ry} priestess of ḏ-Ġġbt performed 2 the ẓll-ceremony for the sake of [HIS] the crops of the season of later rains in Tqmm 3 and so favour her. |
| 2 | For the translation of dṯʾ see Macdonald. |
| 3 | For f-rḍ-h see note on line 2 in the epigraph card. |
| For other translations and commentaries see the bibliography. |
| Altheim and Stiehl 1968: 31-32 (P/6-7), pl. 4 | Altheim, Franz and Stiehl, Ruth 1968. Neue liḥyānische Inschriften. Mit einem Beitrag Gonzague Ryckmans. Die Araber in der alten Welt, 5/1: 24-33. |
| van den Branden 1969: 77-78 (no. 39/6-7) | Van den Branden, Albert 1969. Les inscriptions Liḥyanites de R. Stiehl. Al-Machriq, 63: 67-79. |
| Stiehl 1971: 15-16 (A 06), pl. 14 | Stiehl, Ruth 1971. Neue liḥyānische Inschriften aus al-‛Uḏaib. Pages 3-40 in Altheim, Franz and Stiehl, Ruth (ed.). Christentum am Roten Meer I. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter. |
| Déroche 1987: 236 | Déroche, François 1987. Recherches sur l’oasis de Dedan/Al-‘Ulā. (2 Mikrofiches), (PhD). |
| Macdonald 1992: 2-3 | Macdonald, Michael C.A. 1992. The Seasons and Transhumance in the Safaitic Inscriptions. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 3, 2/1: 1-11. |
| al-Qudra 1993: 16-17 (L 006) | al-Qudra, Ḥusayn M. 1993. Dirāsa muʿǧamīya li-ʾalfāẓ an-nuqūš al-liḥyānīya fī ʾiṭār al-luġāt as-sāmīya al-ǧanūbīya. (MA). |
| Abū l-Ḥasan 1418/1997: 144-145 (AH 043), pl. 6 (facsimile) | Abū l-Ḥasan, Ḥusayn 1418/1997. Qirāʾa li-kitābāt liḥyānīya min ǧabal ʿIkma bi-minṭaqat al-ʿUlā. ar-Riyāḍ: maktabat al-malik Fahd al-waṭanīya. |
| Sima 1999c: 11 (U 022), pls 5a and 6b | Sima, Alexander 1999. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf. |
| Farès-Drappeau 2005: 194 (D 99) | Farès-Drappeau, Saba 2005. Dédan et Liḥyân. Histoire des Arabes aux confins des pouvoirs perse et hellénistique (IVe-IIe s. avant l'ère chrétienne). (Travaux de la Maison de l'Orient et de la Mediterranée, 42). Lyon: Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée; J. Pouilloux. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Rock inscription |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | al-ʿUlā |
| Ancient site | Ddn |
| Geographical area | Ḥijāz |
| Country | Saudi Arabia |
| Notes | Found in Al-ʿUḏayb (Ǧabal ʿIkmah). The inscription is carved amongst a mass of others on one side of the huge rock, which Stiehl called ‘Block A’. It is below U 021, to the left of U 018, to the right of U 025. |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Altheim and Stiehl 1968: 31-32 (P/6-7), pl. 4 | Altheim, Franz and Stiehl, Ruth 1968. Neue liḥyānische Inschriften. Mit einem Beitrag Gonzague Ryckmans. Die Araber in der alten Welt, 5/1: 24-33. |
| van den Branden 1969: 77-78 (no. 39/6-7) | Van den Branden, Albert 1969. Les inscriptions Liḥyanites de R. Stiehl. Al-Machriq, 63: 67-79. |
| Stiehl 1971: 15-16 (A 06), pl. 14 | Stiehl, Ruth 1971. Neue liḥyānische Inschriften aus al-‛Uḏaib. Pages 3-40 in Altheim, Franz and Stiehl, Ruth (ed.). Christentum am Roten Meer I. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter. |
| al-Qudra 1993: 16-17 (L 006) | al-Qudra, Ḥusayn M. 1993. Dirāsa muʿǧamīya li-ʾalfāẓ an-nuqūš al-liḥyānīya fī ʾiṭār al-luġāt as-sāmīya al-ǧanūbīya. (MA). |
| Abū l-Ḥasan 1418/1997: 144-145 (AH 043), pl. 6 (facsimile) | Abū l-Ḥasan, Ḥusayn 1418/1997. Qirāʾa li-kitābāt liḥyānīya min ǧabal ʿIkma bi-minṭaqat al-ʿUlā. ar-Riyāḍ: maktabat al-malik Fahd al-waṭanīya. |
| Sima 1999c: 11 (U 022), pls 5a and 6b | Sima, Alexander 1999. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf. |
| Farès-Drappeau 2005: 194 (D 99) | Farès-Drappeau, Saba 2005. Dédan et Liḥyân. Histoire des Arabes aux confins des pouvoirs perse et hellénistique (IVe-IIe s. avant l'ère chrétienne). (Travaux de la Maison de l'Orient et de la Mediterranée, 42). Lyon: Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée; J. Pouilloux. |
| Déroche 1987: 104, 236 | Déroche, François 1987. Recherches sur l’oasis de Dedan/Al-‘Ulā. (2 Mikrofiches), (PhD). |
| Macdonald 1992: 2-3 | Macdonald, Michael C.A. 1992. The Seasons and Transhumance in the Safaitic Inscriptions. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 3, 2/1: 1-11. |
| Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014 | Hidalgo-Chacón Díez, María del Carmen 2014. Place Names in the Dadanitic Inscriptions of al-'Uḏayb. Adūmātū, 30: 15-30. |