U 010 Stiehl A 14; QDNL 014; AH 048; D 107
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
| It is clear from the arrangement of the ends of the lines of U 010 that U 016, to the left of it, was incised first, since lines 1 and 3 of U 010 have been made shorter than line 2 to avoid encroaching on U 016. Possibly because part of the rock face was already broken, the carver of U 016 started the final line further to the right than the others and it can be seen that the carver of U 010 left this piece of the rock intact and completed his text (line 5) below the beginning of line 4. For the place names, see Hidalgo-Chacón Díez. |
TEXT
1 ʿbdʾtbl bn Zdḥmm
2 Ṯwbt nḏr h-ẓll l-ḏ-Ġbt
3 b-Khl bʿd ml-h b-Ṯr f-rḍ-h
4 w-s¹ʿd-h w-ʾḫrt-h
5 kll-h
| 2 | Abū l-Ḥasan reads h-ṭll for h-ẓll. |
| 4 | Stiehl followed by al-Qudra, and Farès-Drappeau considered the incised w on the piece of rock immediately after w-ʾẖrt-h as part of this text and read w-kll-h. However, "and his posterity and all of him/it" makes no sense and is anyway never found in these contexts where the expression is always w-ʾẖrt-h kll-h "his posterity all of it", i.e. "all his descendants". Moreover, it is clear from the photograph that there is not simply a w inscribed on this piece of rock but the letters "r [word-divider] w", which would have no place in line 4 of U 010. See General notes. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 ʿbdʾtbl son of Zdḥmm 2 Ṯwbt vowed the ẓll-ceremony for ḏ-Ġbt 3 at Khl for the sake of his property in Ṯr and so favour him 4 and help him and his descendants, 5 all of them. |
| 1-2 | Sima treats the second name in the double name as a lineage name. Thus, he translates 'of the family of N'. |
| For other translations and commentaries see the bibliography. |
| Stiehl 1971: 21-22 (A 14), pl. 19 | 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: 19 (L 014) | 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: 154-156 (AH 048), pl. 7 (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: 8 (U 010), pls 2b, 3a, 4a and 4b. | Sima, Alexander 1999. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf. |
| Macdonald 2004: 512 | Macdonald, Michael C.A. 2004. Ancient North Arabian. Pages 488-533 in Roger D. Woodard (ed.). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World’s Ancient Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. |
| Farès-Drappeau 2005: 198-199 (D 107) | 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 |
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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 009, and between U 006 and U 016. |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Stiehl 1971: 21-22 (A 14), pl. 19 | 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: 19 (L 014) | 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: 154-156 (AH 048), pl. 7 (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: 8 (U 010), pls 2b, 3a, 4a and 4b | Sima, Alexander 1999. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf. |
| Farès-Drappeau 2005: 198-199 (D 107) | 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. |
| Macdonald 2004: 512 | Macdonald, Michael C.A. 2004. Ancient North Arabian. Pages 488-533 in Roger D. Woodard (ed.). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World’s Ancient Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. |
| Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014 | Hidalgo-Chacón Díez, María del Carmen 2014. Place Names in the Dadanitic Inscriptions of al-'Uḏayb. Adūmātū, 30: 15-30. |