OCIANA

Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia


SUPPORT INFORMATION

Support typeRock inscription
Notes on support and decorationsThe break in the rock clearly predates the inscription since nothing is missing from the text.

ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin
Modern siteal-ʿUlā
Ancient siteDdn
Geographical areaḤijāz
CountrySaudi Arabia
NotesFound 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 028, to the left of U 025 and U 026, and to the right of U 032.
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EPIGRAPHS

TitleU 029
ConcordanceStiehl A 22; QDNL 022; D 115
LanguageAncient North Arabian » Oasis North Arabian » Dadanitic
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Stiehl 1971: 4Stiehl, 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.