C 4845
Text Information
- Siglum
- C 4845
- Alternative Sigla
- Dunand 1082 b
- Transliteration
-
---- m l- ḏ ḫrṣ ----
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- Translation
-
----m to him who is keeping watch ----
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- Language and Script
- Safaitic
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- C: [l] (m)s¹k {ḏ-} {ʾ}(l) qmr (f) h gd[ʿ](w){ḏ} [s¹][l][m] mn ḏ ḫrṣ (-h) "{By} {Ms¹k} {of the} {lineage of} Qmr {and} O {Gdʿwḏ} [grant {security} from him who is watching for {him}".
- Commentary
- The copy is too confused to allow any coherent reading. C's attempt requires so much emendation that it is not convincing.
- [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 right bank of Wādī Ġarz, near the track leading from Damascus to Zalaf (C p. 593), Al-Suwaydāʾ (al-Sweidah) or Rif Dimašq Governorates, Syria
- Date Found
- 1920s and 1930s
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0008049
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Updated
16 Sep, 2024
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OCIANA. 'C 4845.' OCIANA. 16 Sep, 2024. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/16106. Accessed: 24 Jun, 2025.