Language | Ancient North Arabian » Oasis North Arabian » Dadanitic |
Alphabet | Ancient North Arabian |
Script typology | Monumental writing |
Writing technique | Relief |
Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
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. |
1 | Stiehl 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. |
3 | Abū l-Ḥasan reads h-ṭll for h-ẓll. |
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. 23 | 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: 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. 2a | Sima, 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. 4 | Farès, 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. |
Support type | Rock inscription |
Link to object record |
Modern site | al-ʿUlā |
Ancient site | Ddn |
Geographical area | Ḥijāz |
Country | Saudi Arabia |
Notes | Found 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. |
Link to site record |
Stiehl 1971: 24 (A 19), pl. 23 | 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: 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. 2a | Sima, 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. 4 | Farès, 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 2014 | Hidalgo-Chacón Díez, María del Carmen 2014. Place Names in the Dadanitic Inscriptions of al-'Uḏayb. Adūmātū, 30: 15-30. |