OCIANA

Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia


INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient North Arabian » Oasis North Arabian » Dadanitic
AlphabetAncient North Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Writing techniqueRelief
Textual typologyDedicatory text

GENERAL NOTES

U 002 is incised immediately below line 4 of U 001, and U 004 is immediately to its left, leaving no room for the end of the phrase ʾḥrt -hm. It appears therefore either that the inscription was simply left incomplete, or that the missing portion of rock to the right of U 002 was sufficiently large to allow t -hm to be carved before the first name of U 002.

While it is clear that a portion of the rock has broken away since U 001 and U 002 were carved, the fact that nothing is missing at the beginning of lines 1–4 of U 001 shows that this part of the rock had its present shape at the time the texts were carved.
For the place name, see Hidalgo-Chacón Díez.

TEXT


   1  Yhnʾ w-Ġs¹m bn
   2  (y) ʾmtbʿs¹mn ʾg—
   3  w [h]-ẓll l-ḏ-Ġbt
   4  [b-K]hl f-rḍ-hm w-ʾḫr—
   5  [t-hm]

Apparatus
1Stiehl followed by Farès-Drappeau and Farès does not read the damaged y at the beginning of line 1. It was first read by Abū l-Ḥasan followed by Sima.
3Abū l-Ḥasan reads h-ṭll for h-ẓll.

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  Yhnʾ and Ġs¹m the two
   2  sons of ʾmtbʿs¹mn organi-
   3  zed the ẓll-ceremony for ḏ-Ġbt
   4  at Khl and so favour them and [their] descend-
   5  [ants].
For other translations see the bibliography.
Stiehl 1971: 24 (A 19), pl. 23Stiehl, 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: 20 (L 019)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: 160-162 (AH 051), 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: 5-6 (U 001), pl. 2aSima, Alexander 1999. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf.
Farès-Drappeau 2005: 201-202 (D 112), pl. XXVII/112 (facsimile)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.
Farès 2009: 184 (no. 4), fig. 4Farès, Saba 2009. Les femmes prêtresses dans les religions arabes préislamiques. Le cas des Liḥyanites. Pages 183-195 in Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet (ed.). Femmes, cultures et sociétés dans les civilisations méditerranéennes et proche-orientales de l'antiquité. (Topoi Orient-Occident. Supplément, 10). Lyon: Maison de l'orient méditerranéen-Jean Pouilloux.

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeRock inscription
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin
Modern siteal-ʿUlā
Ancient siteDdn
Geographical areaḤijāz
CountrySaudi Arabia
NotesFound in Al-ʿUḏayb (Ǧabal ʿIkmah). The inscription is carved at the far right end of the rock, which Stiehl called ‘Block A’. It is to the right of U 005 and above U 002.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Stiehl 1971: 24 (A 19), pl. 23Stiehl, 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: 20 (L 019)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: 160-162 (AH 051), 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: 5-6 (U 001), pl. 2aSima, Alexander 1999. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf.
Farès-Drappeau 2005: 201-202 (D 112), pl. XXVII (facsimile)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.
Farès 2009: 184 (no. 4), fig. 4Farès, Saba 2009. Les femmes prêtresses dans les religions arabes préislamiques. Le cas des Liḥyanites. Pages 183-195 in Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet (ed.). Femmes, cultures et sociétés dans les civilisations méditerranéennes et proche-orientales de l'antiquité. (Topoi Orient-Occident. Supplément, 10). Lyon: Maison de l'orient méditerranéen-Jean Pouilloux.
Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014Hidalgo-Chacón Díez, María del Carmen 2014. Place Names in the Dadanitic Inscriptions of al-'Uḏayb. Adūmātū, 30: 15-30.