U 016
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient North Arabian » Oasis North Arabian » Dadanitic |
| Alphabet | Ancient North Arabian |
| Script typology | Monumental writing |
| Writing technique | Incision |
| Textual typology | Dedicatory text - fragmentary |
GENERAL NOTES
| The inscription is difficult to read. Due a crack in the rock face, the lines are not aligned on the right side. The letters of the last three lines are badly incised. Line 4. The letter b at the beginning of this line is incised just at the end of line 1 of U 010. The letter b at the beginning of this line 4 is incised just on the end of line 1 of U 010. Line 8. The letters -h and w- at the beginning of this line are incised just at the end of line 4 of U 010. The vertical stroke of the letter w has been incised very careless. It hardly can be seen. For the place name, see Hidalgo-Chacón Díez. |
TEXT
1 Ngʿh bnt S¹—
2 lm s¹lḥ ḏ-Ġbt
3 b(n) S¹lmn ʾẓlt
4 b-Khl l-ḏ-Ġbt
5 h-ẓll bʿd ṯ—
6 b(r)t f rḍ
7 -h w-s¹ʿd -h
| 1 | Sima reads ngyl for ngʿh. |
| 3 | Sima does not read the beginning b{n}. |
| 7 | Sima reads the beginning of this line at the end of the previous. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Ngʿh daughter of S¹- 2 lm priest of Ḏġbt 3 son (of) S¹lmn performed 4 at Khl for Ḏġbt 5 the ẓll-ceremony for the sake of her 6 grain and so favour her 7 and help her. |
| 6 | We follow Farès-Drappeau in taking ṯbrt as possibly cognate with Hebrew šeber "grain". Though this is by no means certain it fits the context well. See also the discussion in Sima (p. 104). |
| For other translation see Sima. |
| Sima 1999c: 9 (U 016), pls 4a, 4b and 5a. | Sima, Alexander 1999. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf. |
| Farès-Drappeau 2005: 206 (D 121) | 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 incised amongst a mass of others on one side of the huge rock, which Stiehl called ‘Block A’. It is below U 015, to the left of U 009 and U 010 and to the right of U 019 and U 020. |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Stiehl 1971: 4 | 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. |
| Sima 1999c: 9 (U 016), pls 4a, 4b and 5a. | Sima, Alexander 1999. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf. |
| Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014 | Hidalgo-Chacón Díez, María del Carmen 2014. Place Names in the Dadanitic Inscriptions of al-'Uḏayb. Adūmātū, 30: 15-30. |