Sigla: U 089; AH 085  Script: Dadanitic

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Transliteration
1: s¹lm/bn/s²rdh/ʾẓll
2: h- ẓll/b- khl[/]bʿd/ml -h
3: b- mh{g}t/l- ḏġbt/f rḍ -h
4: w ʾḫrt -h

Translation
1: S¹lm son of S²rdh performed
2: the ẓll-ceremony at Khl for the sake of his property
3: in {Mhg}t for Ḏġbt and so favour him
4: and his posterity

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT
Lines 1–2. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭll h- ṭll for ʾẓll h- ẓll.
Line 2. Sima: nḫl -h rather than ml -h.
Line 3. Abū l-Ḥasan reads Mhgt while Sima reads Mhmt.

TRANSLATION
Lines 1–2. ʾẓll h- ẓll, Sima: '(he) covered the subterranean water-channel'.
Line 2. b- khl, Abū l-Ḥasan: 'in the month Khl; Sima: 'by his abilities'; bʿd, Sima: 'in the direction of'.

DISCUSSION
Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 20–23, for the place names Mh{m}t and Khl.
Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.

Commentary
Line 3. mh{g}t The third letter of this place name is not very clear on the photograph and unfortunately, the place name has not occurred in any other Dadanitic inscription known so far. However, on the photograph it is clear that the first letter (m) is open at the base while it seems very likely that the third letter of the name is closed at the base, thus providing the differentiation between m and g

Subjects
Deity Genealogy Place-name Prayer Religion

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
Associated Inscriptions: It is to the left of U 088

References:
[AH] Abū ʾl-Ḥasan, Ḥ.ʿA.D. Qirāʾah li-kitābāt liḥyāniyyah min ǧabal ʿakmah bi-minṭaqat al-ʿulā. Al-Riyāḍ: Maktabat al-malik fahd al-waṭaniyyah, 1997. Pages: 231–233 Plates: 11

Hidalgo-Chacón Díez, M. del C. Place names in the Dadanitic inscriptions of al-ʿUḏayb. Adumatu 30, 2014: 15-30 Pages: 20–23

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: 27 Plates: 21a

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