C 2
Text Information
- Siglum
- C 2
- Alternative Sigla
- Wetzstein 1; Wetzstein 1860: 61; HrH 1
- Transliteration
- l rbḥ bn qmm
- Translation
- By Rbḥ son of Qmm
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- C: qmrn for qmm.
- Commentary
- This is the large inscribed lintel recorded by Wetzstein (HrH 1 = C 2) which is still at the site. It is 1.54 x 62 cm, and 23 cm thick. The inscription (C 2) is written from left to right in large letters (from 42 to 9 cm high) with a serpentine line above it. The second stone with the drawing of a man which Wetzstein found beside it (see C 2), is no longer visible, but may be among the rubble. There is a second large block bearing a few very faint letters (HrH 2).
- Provenance
- A ruined building on the eastern edge of a small khabra surrounded by low cliffs (c. 5 m high), except on the north side which is open. Many large roughly dressed ashlar blocks. The building must have been quite substantial, possibly with ceilings supported by a central pillar as at Khirbat ʿArʿar. It was first discovered in 1858 by Wetzstein, who gives a poetic description of it, as well as rough measurements (1860: 61–62). It appears to have been in ruins even in his day. Note, this is not Haǧar al-Helle (the reported provenance of C 633-861), which has yet to be located.
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Ryckmans, G. Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum: Pars Quinta, Inscriptiones Saracenicae Continens: Tomus I, Fasciculus I, Inscriptiones Safaiticae. Paris: E Reipublicae Typographeo, 1950–1951.
- Grimme, H. Texte und Untersuchungen zur ṣafatenisch-arabischen Religion. Mit einer Einführung in die ṣafatenische Epigraphik. (Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des Altertums, 16/01/2012). [Reprint, 1970, Johnson, New York]. Paderborn: Schöningh, 1929.
- Wetzstein, J.G. Reisebericht über Hauran und die Trachonen nebst einem Anhange über die sabäischen Denkmäler in Ostsyrien. Berlin: Reimer, 1860.
- Inscriptions recorded at Ḥuǧayr al-Ḥelle, southern Syria, by the Safaitic Epigraphic Survey Programme in 1995 and published here
- Site
- The North-western edge of the Ṣafā, Rif Dimašq Governorate, Syria
- Date Found
- 1858 and 1995
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0003207
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