OCIANA

Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia


SUPPORT INFORMATION

Support typeRock inscription
Notes on support and decorationsDue 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.

ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin
Modern siteal-ʿUlā
Ancient siteDdn
Geographical areaḤijāz
CountrySaudi Arabia
NotesFound 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.
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EPIGRAPHS

TitleU 031
ConcordanceStiehl A 23/1-6; QDNL 023/1-6; AH 037; D 116
LanguageAncient North Arabian » Oasis North Arabian » Dadanitic
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Stiehl 1971: 4Stiehl, 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.