C 4772

Siglum
C 4772
Alternative Sigla
Dunand 995
Transliteration
l mlk bn tm bn mlk bn tm bn mḥlm bn tm bn nkf bn ṣʾr bn ʿbṭ bn qnʾl bn {s¹}rʾ ḏ- ʾl ṣ(ʾ)r w ʾs²rq b- mʿzy f dṯʾ b- ʿrḍ h- {s¹}r
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Translation
By Mlk son of Tm son of Mlk son of Tm son of Mḥlm son of Tm son of Nkf son of Ṣʾr son of ʿbṭ son of Qnʾl son of {S¹rʾ} of the lineage of Ṣʾr and he migrated to the inner desert with some goats and then spent the season of the later rains on the slopes of this wādī.
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Language and Script
Safaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
MST 4 n. 23: w ʾs²rq b- mʿzy f dṯʾ b- ʿrḍ h- {s¹}r "and he migrated to the inner desert with some goats and then spent the season of the later rains on the slopes of this wæd¡" MNH p. 320 n. 119: as MST. C: l mlk bn tm bn mlk bn tm bn mḥlm bn tm bn n{k}f bn ṣʾr bn ʿbṭ bn qnʾl bn s¹rʾ ḏ- ʾl ṣ(ʾ)r w ʾs²rq b- mʿzy f dṯʾ b- ʿrḍ h- s¹r

Editio Princeps
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  • [MST] Macdonald, M.C.A. The Seasons and Transhumance in the Safaitic Inscriptions. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland 3rd. series, 2, 1992: 1-11.
  • [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, near a bridge to the track leading from Damascus to Zalaf (C p. 589), Al-Suwaydāʾ (al-Sweidah) or Rif Dimašq Governorates, Syria
Date Found
1920s and 1930s
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Old OCIANA ID
#0007976
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Updated 16 Sep, 2024 by OCIANA