Language | Ancient North Arabian » Oasis North Arabian » Dadanitic |
Alphabet | Ancient North Arabian |
Script typology | Monumental writing |
Writing technique | Relief |
Textual typology | Dedicatory text - fragmentary |
In the compound numeral the ten is place before the unit, and they are connected by w-. See Sima (pp 108-109) and Macdonald. Line 6-7. These two lines are not shown in the Abū l-Ḥasan's copy. The inscription is so damaged that the reading of several letters is difficult. For the place names, see Hidalgo-Chacón Díez. |
4-5 | These two lines are not shown in the Abū l-Ḥasan's copy. |
5 | Drewes followed by Abū l-Ḥasan reads ʾṭllw for ʾẓllw. Sima reads nḫl [w] at the end of this line. |
6 | Sima restores [bʿd/nḫl -hm/b] at the end of this line. |
7 | Sima reads Ṯʾmm at the beginning of this line. |
English | |
1 ʿbd(h)(.)nt son of ʿlt, the priest 2 of ḏ-Ġbt, and his son Yhnʾ 3 and his wife ʾmtbʿs¹mn 4 planted in Bdr and in Bnʾl one 5 hundred and forty-five palm garden (and) 6 performed the ẓll-ceremony for ḏ-Ġbt [......] their palm garden 7 (and) their crops of the (season) of the later rains and so favour them and [their] descendants. |
4 | For the translation of the verb ġrs¹ as "plant" see Sima (pp 94-95). |
Abū l-Ḥasan 1418/1997: 140-141 (AH 041), 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: 11 (U 023), pl. 5a | Sima, Alexander 1999. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf. |
Drewes 1983: 428 | Drewes, Abraham J. 1983. Liḥyanitische Inscripties. Pages 424-429 in Klaas R. Veenhof (ed.). Schrijvend verleden. Documenten uit het Oude Nabije Oosten vertaald en toegelich. Leiden: Ex Oriente Lux. |
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 a mass of others on one side of the huge rock, which Stiehl called 'Block A'. It is below U 022, to the left of U 019 and U 020, and to the right of U 026. |
Link to site record |
Drewes 1983: 428 (no. 18) | Drewes, Abraham J. 1983. Liḥyanitische Inscripties. Pages 424-429 in Klaas R. Veenhof (ed.). Schrijvend verleden. Documenten uit het Oude Nabije Oosten vertaald en toegelich. Leiden: Ex Oriente Lux. |
Abū l-Ḥasan 1418/1997: 140-141 (AH 041), 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: 11 (U 023), pl. 5a | Sima, Alexander 1999. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf. |
Macdonald 2004: (521-522 § 4-5) | 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. |
Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014 | Hidalgo-Chacón Díez, María del Carmen 2014. Place Names in the Dadanitic Inscriptions of al-'Uḏayb. Adūmātū, 30: 15-30. |