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 techniqueIncision
Textual typologyDedicatory text

GENERAL NOTES

The inscription is surrounded by a cartouche on the right side.
Note that here and in AH 070, the preposition (without a pronominal suffix) has the less common form, ʿl, whereas it occurs as ʿly elsewhere at al-ʿUḏayb (U 059, U 071, U 126, AH 069, AH 075, AH 079, AH 089, AH 107), see Macdonald.
Line 5. The carver accidentally used the 3rd person plural rather than the 3rd person singular pronominal suffix here, but returns to the singular.
For discussion, see Déroche.
For the place name, see Hidalgo-Chacón Díez.

TEXT


   1  Llt ʾẓl—
   2  l h-ẓll
   3  l-ḏ-Ġbt
   4  ʿl ḏ-kn l-hm
   5  b-Bdr f-rḍ-h

Apparatus
1-2Abū l-Ḥasan reads ʾṭll h-ṭll for ʾẓll h-ẓll.

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  Llt perfor-
   2  med the ẓll-ceremony for ḏ-Ġbt
   3  for that which belongs to them
   4  at Bdr and so favour him.
For other translations and commentaries see the bibliography.
Stiehl 1971: 31-32 (D 03), pls 36 and 37Stiehl, 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: 25 (L 036)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: 93-95 (AH 017), 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: 24 (U 073), pl. 18a, 18b, 19a and 28aSima, Alexander 1999. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf.
Farès-Drappeau 2005: 209 (D 127)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 typeRock inscription
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin
Modern siteal-ʿUlā
Ancient siteDdn
Geographical areaḤijāz
CountrySaudi Arabia
NotesThe inscription is incised on one of the rock faces in the gorge al-ʿUḏayb (Ǧabal ʿIkmah). It is below U 074 and to the left of U 075, and there is a brief, unreadable, text above the end of line 1. It has a border along the top and down its right side.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Stiehl 1971: 31-32 (D 03), pls 36 and 37Stiehl, 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: 25 (L 036)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: 93-95 (AH 017), 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: 24 (U 073), pls 18a, 18b, 19a and 28aSima, Alexander 1999. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf.
Macdonald 2004: 519 §4.3.5.3Macdonald, 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: 209 (D 127)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.
Déroche 1987: 108, 238Déroche, François 1987. Recherches sur l’oasis de Dedan/Al-‘Ulā. (2 Mikrofiches), (PhD).
Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014Hidalgo-Chacón Díez, María del Carmen 2014. Place Names in the Dadanitic Inscriptions of al-'Uḏayb. Adūmātū, 30: 15-30.