Siglum: U 056  Script: Dadanitic

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Transliteration
1: ʾmtbʿs¹mn bnt
2: ----ḥyt ʾẓllt l-
3: ḏġbt b- {k}hl bʿd
4: {d}ṯʾ -h/f rḍ -h

Translation
1: ʾmtbʿs¹mn daughter of
2: ----ḥyt performed for
3: Ḏġbt at {Khl} for the sake of
4: her {crops of the season of the later rains} and so favour her

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT
Lines 3–4. Sima does not read the end of line 3 and the whole of line 4.

TRANSLATION
Lines 2–3. ʾẓllt, Sima: '(he) covered ----'.

DISCUSSION
Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 20–22, for the place name Khl.
Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.

Commentary
Line 2. The first letter is illegible.
Line 3. The oblique stroke of the letter k is placed on the middle of the letter making it resemble the letter s¹.

Subjects
Genealogy Religion Deity Place-name Agriculture Prayer Season Women

Country: Saudi Arabia
Region: Al-Madīnah
Site: Oasis of al-ʿUlā
Latitude: 26.616667
Longitude: 37.916667
Present Location: In situ
Notes: Al-ʿUḏayb (Ǧabal ʿIkmah). The inscription is chiselled on a rock inside the gorge

References:
Hidalgo-Chacón Díez, M. del C. Place names in the Dadanitic inscriptions of al-ʿUḏayb. Adumatu 30, 2014: 15-30 Pages: 20–22

Hidalgo-Chacón Díez. M. del C. The divine names at Dadan: a philological approach. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 46, 2016: 125–136 Pages: 128

[U] Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. Pages: 20 Plates: 14a

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