C 3931

Siglum
C 3931
Alternative Sigla
LSI 134
Transliteration
l nṣrʾl bn gmr h- ḫṭṭ w ḥḍr h- dr f h ʾṯʿ s¹lm w ḫrṣ qʿṣn w fr
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Translation
By Nṣrʾl son of Gmr is this writing and he camped by permanent water in this place, so O ʾṯʿ, let there be security as he had kept watch for murders but fled.
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Language and Script
Safaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
C: "he kept watch for Qʿṣn, and fled."

Editio Princeps
C

Associated Drawings
In a border. In the middle of the inscription is a drawing of a covered horse, on which a man is sitting, who is piercing with a lance another man, who holds a shield in his left hand, and also a lance in his right hand.

  • [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.
  • [C] Ryckmans, G. Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum: Pars Quinta, Inscriptiones Saracenicae Continens: Tomus I, Fasciculus I, Inscriptiones Safaiticae. Paris: E Reipublicae Typographeo, 1950–1951.
Site
Al-Ḥifnah, Al-Suwaydāʾ (al-Sweidah) Governorate, Syria
Date Found
1899–1900
Current Location
Princeton UAM ?
Subject
Genealogy
Old OCIANA ID
#0007135
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