U 025 Stiehl A 01; QDNL 001; AH 039; D 094
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient North Arabian » Oasis North Arabian » Dadanitic |
| Alphabet | Ancient North Arabian |
| Script typology | Monumental writing |
| Writing technique | Relief |
| Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
GENERAL NOTES
| The text is written at an angle and the ends of the lines curve downwards. For the place names, see Hidalgo-Chacón Díez. |
TEXT
1 Nmr bn Qrmlh ʾẓl—
2 l h-ẓll b-Khl l-ḏ-Ġ[bt]
3 bʿd nḫl-h b-Bnʾl w-T—
4 qmm f-rḍ-h w-s¹ʿd-h
| The phrase f-rḍ-h occurs on an uninscribed patch of rock slightly above and to the left of line 1 of U 022, immediately below line 4 of U 025. It is unlikely to belong to U 025 since the same phrase already occurs in line 4 of that text. Sima (p. 11) therefore argued that it belongs to U 022 and placed it at the end of line 1 in his transliteration, but at the end of line 2 (where sense requires it) in his translation. However, it is spatially separate from both these lines and we have therefore attributed it to a ‘line 3’ of U 022. Stiehl followed by al-Qudra and Farès-Drappeau took the phrase to be part of U 025. Abū l-Ḥasan (pp 136-138 (AH 039); pp 144-145 (AH 043)) did not read it with either of the texts. | |
| 1-2 | Abū l-Ḥasan reads ʾṭll h-ṭll for ʾẓll h-ẓll. |
| 3-4 | Stiehl followed by al-Qudra and Farès-Drappeau read Tymm for Tqmm. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Nmr son of Qrmlh perfor- 2 med the ẓll-ceremony for ḏ-Ġ[bt] 3 for the sake of his palm garden in Bnʾl and in 4 Tqmm and so favour him and help him. |
| For other translations and commentaries see the bibliography. |
| Stiehl 1971: 4-11 (A 01), pls 10 and 12 | 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: 226 | Déroche, François 1987. Recherches sur l’oasis de Dedan/Al-‘Ulā. (2 Mikrofiches), (PhD). |
| al-Qudra 1993: 15 (L 001) | 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: 136-138 (AH 039), 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: 12 (U 025), pl. 6b | Sima, Alexander 1999. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf. |
| Farès-Drappeau 2005: 191-192 (D 094) | 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 type | Rock inscription |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| 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 024, to the left of U 021 and U 022, and above U 026. |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Stiehl 1971: 4-11 (A 01), pl. 10 | 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: 15 (L 001) | 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: 136-138 (AH 039), 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: 12 (U 025), pl. 6b | Sima, Alexander 1999. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf. |
| Farès-Drappeau 2005: 191-192 (D 094) | 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. |