Language | Ancient North Arabian » Oasis North Arabian » Dadanitic |
Alphabet | Ancient North Arabian |
Script typology | Monumental writing |
Writing technique | Incision |
Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
Stiehl, followed by al-Qudra, considers the first two lines of U 032 as the end of this inscription. Line 6. Although in Dadanitic orthography bn -h could represent either *banay -h "his two sons" or *ibn -h "his son" we cannot be sure that the letters after ʿbb represent the name of a another son and it seems safer therefore to interpret it as "his son". Due to a crack in the rock face, the lines are not aligned on the left side. On the right side the beginning of lines 1 and 2 is not aligned with those below it. For the place names, see Hidalgo-Chacón Díez. |
3 | Abū l-Ḥasan reads h-ṭll for h-ẓll. |
6 | Stiehl, followed by al-Qudra, reads ʿ(bs1) w ʿ[bd] for ʿbb w ʿ---- Abū l-Ḥasan reads ʿ----wʿ rather than w ʿ----. |
English | |
1 ʿbdhgrb son 2 of Ḥbʾl accomplished 3 the ẓll-ceremony for ḏ-Ġbt at Khl 4 for the sake of his crops of the season of later rains in Ḏʿmn and so 5 favour him and help him and his descendants 6 and his son ʿbb and ʿy[......] |
4 | For the translation of dṯʾ see Macdonald. |
6 | Although in Dadanitic orthography bnh could represent either *banay -h "his two sons" or *ibn -h "his son" we cannot be sure that the letters after ʿbb represent the name of a another son and it seems safer therefore to interpret it as "his son". |
For other translations see the bibliography. |
Stiehl 1971: 26-27 (A 23/1-6), pl. 26 | 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. |
Macdonald 1992: 2-3 | Macdonald, Michael C.A. 1992. The Seasons and Transhumance in the Safaitic Inscriptions. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 3, 2/1: 1-11. |
al-Qudra 1993: 21-22 (L 023/1-6) | 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: 131-133 (AH 037), pl. 5 (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: 13-14 (U 031) | Sima, Alexander 1999. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf. |
Farès-Drappeau 2005: 203-204 (D 116) | 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 incised amongst a mass of other on one side of a huge rock, which Stiehl called 'Block A'. It is to the left of U 027 and U 028, to the right to U 033 and U 034 and above U 032. |
Link to site record |
Stiehl 1971: 26-27 (A 23/1-6), pl. 26 | 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: 21-22 (L 023/1-6) | 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: 131-133 (AH 037), pl. 5 (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: 13-14 (U 031) | Sima, Alexander 1999. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf. |
Farès-Drappeau 2005: 203-204 (D 116) | 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. |
Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014 | Hidalgo-Chacón Díez, María del Carmen 2014. Place Names in the Dadanitic Inscriptions of al-'Uḏayb. Adūmātū, 30: 15-30. |