RR 4
Text Information
- Siglum
- RR 4
- Transliteration
- l mrʾ bn gnnʾl bn mrʾ bn s²f w ḫrṣ bʾs¹ s²nʾ w ---- f hy lt fṣy ṣġ{r}ʾ w bʾs¹ l- bġy bʾs¹
- Translation
- By Mrʾ son of Gnnʾl son of Mrʾ son of S²f and he anticipated the affliction of enemies and ---- O Lt deliver Ṣġr and misfortune be to them who seek [to cause] affliction
Interpretation
- Commentary
- On the same small stone as RR 1, 2 and 3. This text starts at the right side, above 3, running from right-to-left. But half way across the face it turns up and runs back to the right edge where it turns left and runs along the top of the face to the left edge where it turns down. The translation is that in Al-Jallad 2015: 276.
- Provenance
- Site 21 is a large cairn with many inscriptions of which Littmann copied only 5. It is c. 1.75 km, as the crow flies, from Biʾr al-Ruṣayʿī, around which there are many cairns, and it is not clear why this one was given the name Riǧm al-Ruṣayʿī. The local Bedouin do not appear to know it as this today. Two texts from this site are clearly identifiable as LP 169 and 170 respectively, and another as LP 174, all from Rijm Ruṣayʿī.
- Associated Inscriptions
- RR 1–3
- Al-Jallad, A.M. An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions. (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 80). Leiden: Brill, 2015.
- Site
- Ruǧm al-Ruṣayʿī, Site 21, Al-Suwaydāʾ (al-Sweidah) Governorate, Syria
- Date Found
- 1995
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Curse, Deity, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Watch (keeping)
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0036096
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