C 3916

Siglum: C 3916
Alternative Sigla: LSI 82
Transliteration: l ḥml bn s¹lm bn s¹ʿd w ʾḫḏ m- ḥny h- frs¹ b- ḫms¹t ʾmny
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Translation: By Ḥml son of S¹lm son of S¹ʿd and he bought from Ḥny the horse for five minas
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Language and Script: Safaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: LSI 82: s¹lm C: ʿs¹m for s¹lm
Commentary: For another example of a Safaitic graffito recording the purchase of a horse (this time for twenty minas) see RQ.A 1. There again the text is carved around a drawing of the horse.

[LSI] Littmann, E. Semitic Inscriptions. Part IV of the Publications of an American Archaeological Expedition to Syria in 1899-1900. New York: Century, 1904.
[LP] Littmann, E. Safaïtic Inscriptions. Syria. Publications of the Princeton University Archaeological Expeditions to Syria in 1904–1905 and 1909. Division IV. Section C. Leiden: Brill, 1943.
[MISS] Macdonald, M.C.A., Al Muʾazzin, M. & Nehmé, L. Les inscriptions safaïtiques de Syrie, cent quarante ans après leur découverte. Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions & Belles-Lettres 1996: 435-494.
[RQ.A] Inscriptions recorded by the Safaitic Epigraphic Survey Programme in 1995 at the site which Wetzstein called Riǧm Qaʿqūl, and published here.
[C] Ryckmans, G. Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum: Pars Quinta, Inscriptiones Saracenicae Continens: Tomus I, Fasciculus I, Inscriptiones Safaiticae. Paris: E Reipublicae Typographeo, 1950–1951.

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