Language | Ancient North Arabian » Oasis North Arabian » Dadanitic |
Alphabet | Ancient North Arabian |
Script typology | Monumental writing |
Writing technique | Relief |
Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
Line 1. The first letter, ʿayn, is carved into the frame of the inscription. Line 4. At the end of the line the mason mistakenly carved a word-divider between the r and the ḍ in the expression f-rḍy-h. Altheim and Stiehl and van den Branden consider this inscription and U 019, as one text. For discussion see Déroche and Macdonald. |
1 | It is not read for Altheim and Stiehl followed by van den Branden. |
2-3 | Abū l-Ḥasan reads the expression ʾṭl h-ṭll for ʾẓl h-ẓll. |
4 | Altheim and Stiehl followed by van den Branden read mlṭ rather than ml-h. |
6 | Farès-Drappeau does not read the last word ḥrm. |
Altheim and Stiehl and van den Branden consider this inscription and U 019, as one text. |
English | |
1 ʿms¹ʿd son of K- 2 brh performed the ẓll-ceremony 3 for ḏ-Ġbt for the sake 4 of his property and so may he favour 5 him and may he help him and his des- 6 cendants and his son Ḥrm. |
For other translations and commentaries see the bibliography. |
Altheim and Stiehl 1968: 26-27 (M/1-6), pls 4 and 5 | Altheim, Franz and Stiehl, Ruth 1968. Neue liḥyānische Inschriften. Mit einem Beitrag Gonzague Ryckmans. Die Araber in der alten Welt, 5/1: 24-33. |
van den Branden 1969: 70-73 (no. 32/1-6) | Van den Branden, Albert 1969. Les inscriptions Liḥyanites de R. Stiehl. Al-Machriq, 63: 67-79. |
Stiehl 1971: 16-17 (A 07), pl. 15 | 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. |
Déroche 1987: 104, 236 | Déroche, François 1987. Recherches sur l’oasis de Dedan/Al-‘Ulā. (2 Mikrofiches), (PhD). |
al-Qudra 1993: 17 (L 007) | 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: 151-154 (AH 047), pl. 6 (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: 10 (U 018), pls 3a, 5a and 6a. | Sima, Alexander 1999. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf. |
Macdonald 2004: 510, 512, 526 | Macdonald, 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: 194-195 (D 100), pl. XXV | 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. |
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 amongst of a mass of others on one side of the huge rock, which Stiehl called 'Block A'. It is below U 017, to the left of U 014, to the right of U 021 and above U 019. |
Link to site record |
Altheim and Stiehl 1968: 26-27 (M/1-6), pls 4 and 5 | Altheim, Franz and Stiehl, Ruth 1968. Neue liḥyānische Inschriften. Mit einem Beitrag Gonzague Ryckmans. Die Araber in der alten Welt, 5/1: 24-33. |
van den Branden 1969: 70-73 (no. 32/1-6) | Van den Branden, Albert 1969. Les inscriptions Liḥyanites de R. Stiehl. Al-Machriq, 63: 67-79. |
Stiehl 1971: 16-17 (A 07), pl. 15 | 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: 17 (L 007) | 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: 151-154 (AH 047), pl. 6 (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: 10 (U 018), pls 3a, 5a and 6a. | Sima, Alexander 1999. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf. |
Farès-Drappeau 2005: 194-195 (D 100), pl. XXV | 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: 104, 236 | Déroche, François 1987. Recherches sur l’oasis de Dedan/Al-‘Ulā. (2 Mikrofiches), (PhD). |
Macdonald 2004: 510, 512, 526 | Macdonald, 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. |