C 4769
Text Information
- Siglum
- C 4769
- Alternative Sigla
- Dunand 890
- Transliteration
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l s²mt bn lʿṯmn bn s²{m}t bn s²rk bn ʾ[n]ʿm bn lʿ(ṯ)mn bn w{h}(b){ʾ}{l} bn n{ġ}(b)r w q(y)ẓ ʿl- b{t}r f h lt s¹lm w ts²(w)q ʾl- ḥbb -h
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- Translation
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By S²mt son of Lʿṯmn son of {S²mt} son of S²rk son of {ʾnʿm} son of {Lʿṯmn} son of {Whbʾl} son of {Nġbr} and he spent the dry season at Btr and so Lt [grant] security and {he yearned} for his friend
OCIANA
- Language and Script
- Safaitic
Interpretation
- Commentary
- Btr is a place name which also occurs in C 2577 (w qyẓ ʿ{l}- btr) and 3194 (w wrd ʾl- btr), and in Is.Mu 868 (w lgm ʿl brkt qyẓ f wrd ʾl- btr) and was clearly a place with good water were the nomads could spend the dry season.
- [Is.Mu] Inscriptions recorded at al-ʿĪsāwī by Muna Al-Muʾazzin, on the Safaitic Epigraphic Survey Programme, 1995–2002, 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.
- 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
- Deity, Genealogy, Grieving, Isolated Prayer, Place-name, Season
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0007973
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16 Sep, 2024
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