U 033 Stiehl A 24; QDNL 024; AH 033; D 117
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
| Line 6-7. These lines are shorter than those above them. For the place names, see Hidalgo-Chacón Díez. |
TEXT
1 ʿyḏ bn Ydʿ ʿ—
2 nn ʾẓll h-ẓll ḏh
3 l-ḏ-Ġbt b-Khl bʿ—
4 d nḫl-h b-Ṯr w-
5 dṯʾ-h b-Ḏʿmn
6 f-rḍ-h w-s¹—
7 ʿd-h
| 1 | Stiehl followed by al-Qudra and Farès-Drappeau does not read the first personal name. |
| 2-3 | Abū l-Ḥasan does not read the first letters of these two lines. He reads ʾṭll h-ṭll rather than ʾẓll h-ẓll. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 ʿyḏ son Ydʿ ʿ- 2 nn performed this ẓll-ceremony 3 for ḏ-Ġbt at Khl for 4 the sake of his palm garden in Ṯr and 5 his crops of the season of later rains in Ḏʿmn 6 and so favour him and help 7 him. |
| 1-2 | Sima treats the second name in the double name as a lineage name. Thus, he translates 'of the family of N'. |
| 5 | For the translation of dṯʾ see Macdonald. |
| For other translations and commentaries see bibliography. |
| Stiehl 1971: 27 (A 24), pl. 27 | 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: 22 (L 024) | 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: 122-125 (AH 033), 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: 14 (U 033), pl. 8a | Sima, Alexander 1999. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf. |
| Macdonald 2004: 526, § 5.1.4 | 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: 204 (D 117) | 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 |
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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 to the left of U 031, to the right of U 035, and above U 034. |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Stiehl 1971: 27 (A 24), pl. 27 | 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: 22 (L 024) | 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: 122-125 (AH 033), 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: 14 (U 033), pl. 8a | Sima, Alexander 1999. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf. |
| Farès-Drappeau 2005: 204 (D 117) | 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. |