C 99
Text Information
- Siglum
- C 99
- Alternative Sigla
- Dunand 1383 g
- Transliteration
-
l [w][r]d bn ʾḏnt bn s²rk bn ʾḏnt bn wrd bn nġbr w ṣyr w tm {h}- s¹fr ʾl- ḥrn f ts²wq ʾl- ḥbb w wgm ʿl- mḥlm w ʿl- ḥn{q}t
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- Translation
-
By {Wrd} son of ʾḏnt son of S²rk son of ʾḏnt son of Wrd son of Nġbr and he returned to a place of water and the journey lasted as far as Ḥawrān, and so he longed for a friend one and grieved for Mḥlm and {Ḥnqt}.
OCIANA
- Language and Script
- Safaitic
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- C: s¹frt rḥ{b}n for s¹fr {ʾ}{l}ḥrn; ḥlmt for ḥn{r}t; "he put an end to the inscription of Rḥbn" for "he reached the inscriptions of the family of Ḥrn"
- Editio Princeps
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Incised
- Direction of Script
- Curving then boustrophedon
- Associated Inscriptions
- C 93-98 C 100 (C 101?)
- [C] Ryckmans, G. Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum: Pars Quinta, Inscriptiones Saracenicae Continens: Tomus I, Fasciculus I, Inscriptiones Safaiticae. Paris: E Reipublicae Typographeo, 1950–1951.
- Site
- Ǧabal Says, Rif Dimašq Governorate, Syria
- Date Found
- 1920s and 1930s
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0003304
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Updated
16 Sep, 2024
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OCIANA,. 'C 99.' OCIANA. 16 Sep, 2024. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/10195. Accessed: 18 Sep, 2025.