Sigla: AH 013; Ryckmans 3.28; Scagliarini 1996: 93–97; Scagliarini-U 001; D 146; Farès 2009: 183, no. 1  Script: Dadanitic

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Transliteration
1: s¹gl/bnt
2: s²mr/s¹lḥt
3: ḏġbt/ʾ–
4: ẓlt/h- ẓll
5: l- ḏġbt/b- k–
6: hl/hm -ḏ/nḏrt
7: f r{ḍ} {-h}/w {s¹}ʿd -h
8: w {ʾ}{ḫ}rt -h/s¹nt/ḫms¹
9: s²{h}r/{b}n/hnʾs¹

Translation
1: S¹gl daughter of
2: S²mr priestess of
3: Ḏġbt per–
4: formed the ẓll-ceremony
5: for Ḏġbt at K–
6: hl in accordance with what she vowed
7: and so {favour} {her} and {help} her
8: and her {posterity} in the year five
9: of {S²hr} {son of} Ḥnʾs¹

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT
Line 1. Scagliarini: kgl for s¹gl.
Lines 3–4. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭlt h- ṭll rather than ʾẓlt h- ẓll.
Line 6. Farès-Drappeau: ----ḏ rather than hm- ḏ.

TRANSLATION
Line 2. Sima does not translate the word s¹lḥt.
Lines 3–4. ʾẓlt h- ẓll, Sima: '(she) covered the water-channel'; Farès-Drappeau: '(she) offered the sacrifice'.
Lines 5–6. b- khl, Abū l-Ḥasan: 'in the month Khl'; Sima: 'by her abilities'.
Line 8. ʾ{ḫ}{r}t -h, Farès-Drappeau: '(he) has guided her'.

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

Subjects
Date (s1nt) Deity Genealogy Place-name Prayer Religion 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)
Associated Inscriptions: It is to the right of U 076, to the left of AH 011 and above AH 012

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: 84–88 Plates: 2

[D] Farès-Drappeau, S. Dédan et Liḥyān. Histoire des Arabes aux confins des pouvoirs perse et hellénistique (IVe–IIe s. avant l'ère chrétienne). (Travaux de la maison de l'Orient, 42). Lyon: Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée — Jean Pouilloux, 2005. Pages: 216–217 Plates: XXIX

Farès, S. Les femmes prêtresses dans les religions arabes préislamiques. Le cas des Liḥyanites. Pages 183-195 in F. Briquel-Chatonnet, S. Farès, B. Lion & C. Michel (eds), Femmes, cultures et sociétés dans les civilisations méditeranéennes et proche-orientales de l'Antiquité. (Topoi Supplément, 10). Paris: Gabalda. Lyon: Maison de l'Orient Meditérranée, 2009. Pages: 183, fig. 1 Number: 1

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

Scagliarini, F. Le iscrizioni liḥyānitiche dell'Oasi di al-ʿUlā. Dottorato di ricerca in semitistica: linguistica semitica, Universita' degli studi di Firenze, anni accademici 1992-1994 . [unpublished thesis]. 1994. Pages: 81–86 Plates: I Number: Ryckmans 3.28

Scagliarini, F. Šahr figlio di Han-Aws: il nome di un nuovo sovrano in un testo liḥyanitico inedito. Studi epigrafici e linguistici sul vicino oriente antico 13, 1996: 91-97. Pages: 93–97 Plates: I

Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. Pages: 33–34 Plates: 28a (middle) Number: Scagliarini-U 001

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