C 4757

Siglum
C 4757
Alternative Sigla
Dunand 881
Transliteration
l ġṯ bn gḥfl bn ẓnn bn ʿz(h)m w ṣyr mn rḥbt s¹nt myt gmm bn s¹r f h lt s¹lm w ʿwr l- ḏ yʿwr h- s¹fr
OCIANA
Translation
By Ġṯ son of Gḥfl son of Ẓnn son of {ʿzhm} and he returned to permanent water from the Ruḥbah the year Gmm son of S¹r died and so O Lt [grant] security and [inflict] blindness on whoever scratches out the inscriptiom
OCIANA
Language and Script
Safaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
MNH p. 343: s¹nt myt gmm bn s¹r "the year Gmm bn s¹r died".

  • [MNH] Macdonald, M.C.A. Nomads and the Ḥawrān in the late Hellenistic and Roman periods: A reassessment of the epigraphic evidence. Syria 70, 1993: 303-413. [Reprinted with the same pagination, plus addenda and corrigenda as Article II in M.C.A. Macdonald, Literacy and Identity in Pre-Islamic Arabia, (Variorum Collected Studies Series no. 906), Farnham: Ashgate, 2009].
  • [C] Ryckmans, G. Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum: Pars Quinta, Inscriptiones Saracenicae Continens: Tomus I, Fasciculus I, Inscriptiones Safaiticae. Paris: E Reipublicae Typographeo, 1950–1951.
Site
On the left bank of Wādī Ġarz, beside the track leading from Damascus to Zalaf (C p. 585), Al-Suwaydāʾ (al-Sweidah) or Rif Dimašq Governorates, Syria
Date Found
1920s and 1930s
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Curse, Date (s¹nt), Deity, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Place-name, Transhumance, Watering
Old OCIANA ID
#0007961
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OCIANA. 'C 4757.' OCIANA. 16 Sep, 2024. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/15780. Accessed: 13 Jun, 2025.