U 041 AH 021
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
| Line 3-4.T he beginnings of these lines are difficult to see on the photographs. For discussion of the word ḫrf, see Macdonald. For the place names, see Hidalgo-Chacón Díez. |
TEXT
1 Mgd bn Ḥrb
2 Ḫṯmh hẓll
3 [l]-ḏ-Ġbt b-Khl
4 b[ʿ]d ḫrf-h b-Bd[r]
5 f-r[ḍ]-h w-ʾḫrt-h
| 2 | Abū l-Ḥasan reads ṯ[l]mh hṭll for Ḫṯmh hẓll. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Mgd son of Ḥrb 2 Ḫṯmh performed [the ẓll-ceremony] 3 [for] ḏ-Ġbt at Khl 4 for the [sake of] his crops of the season of the first rains in Bd[r] 5 and so fa[vour) him and his descendants. |
| 2-3 | Sima treats the second name in the double name as a lineage name. Thus, he translates 'of the family of N'. |
| 4 | For the translation of ḫrf see Macdonald. |
| For other translations see the bibliography. |
| Macdonald 1992: 3-4 | Macdonald, Michael C.A. 1992. The Seasons and Transhumance in the Safaitic Inscriptions. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 3, 2/1: 1-11. |
| Abū l-Ḥasan 1418/1997: 101-103 (AH 021), 3 (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: 16-17 (U 041), pls 9a, 9b, 10a, 10b and 11a | Sima, Alexander 1999. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf. |
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 on a rock, which Stiehl called ‘Block B’. It is to the left of U 042. |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Abū l-Ḥasan 1418/1997: 101-103 (AH 021), pl. 3 (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: 16-17 (U 041), pls 9a, 9b, 10a, 10b and 11a | Sima, Alexander 1999. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf. |
| Macdonald 1992: 3-4 | 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. |