C 4794

Siglum
C 4794
Alternative Sigla
Dunand 1009 a
Transliteration
l mʾqn bn bḍfh w ʿly mgʿ
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Translation
By Mʾqn son of Bḍfh and he went up to pasture
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Language and Script
Safaitic

Interpretation

Commentary
With C, we have taken mgʿ as equivalent to Arabic manǧaʿ "pasturage" (see mngʿ in C 3235) with the assimilation of [n] as is common, though sporadic, in Safaitic. It would be in the locative (see Al-Jallad 2015: 201–202).

  • Al-Jallad, A. An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions. (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 80). Leiden: Brill, 2015.
  • [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
Subjects
Genealogy, Movement, Pasturing
Old OCIANA ID
#0007998
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Updated 16 Sep, 2024 by OCIANA