C 1292

Siglum
C 1292
Alternative Sigla
Wetzstein 179
Transliteration
l mṭr bn ʾḏnt bn ʾnʿm bn qdm {b}n ʾn(ʿ)m bn {b}nʾl{h} {b}n whbʾl (w) dṯʾ h- wrd s¹nt mrq ʾl rm ʿwḏ f h ʾlt dṯn w h gdʿwḏ w bʿls¹mn s¹lm w ʿw[r]----
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Translation
By Mṭr son of ʾḏnt son of ʾnʿm son of Qdm {son of} {ʾnʿm} son of {Bnʾlh} {son of} Whbʾl {and} he spent the season of the later rains at this watering-place in the year the ʾl Rm allowed ʿwḏ to pass through so O ʾlt Dṯn and O Gdʿwḏ and Bʿls¹mn let there be security and [blind]----
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Language and Script
Safaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
C 1292: s¹nt mr(d) ʾl rm ʿwḏ "the year ʿwḏ revolted against the ʾl Rm" for s¹nt mrq ʾl rm ʿwḏ "the year the ʾl Rm allowed ʿwḏ to pass through"; f h ʾlt dṯn w h gdʿwḏ w bʿls¹mn s¹lm "And O ʾLt fertility and O Gdʿwḏ and Bʿls¹mn security" for " and O ʾlt Dṯn and O Gdʿwḏ and Bʿls¹mn [grant] security" Macdonald 1993: 331 n. 181: s¹nt mrq ʾl rm ʿwḏ "the year the ʾl Rm allowed ʿwḏ to pass through (?)".
Commentary
On dṯʾ see Macdonald 1992: 2–3. The q of mrq is clear on the copy and there seems no reason to emend it. On dṯn as a place with its own tutelary goddess, see See Macdonald, Al Muʾazzin & Nehmé 1996: 474–476.

Editio Princeps
C

Associated Signs
six (should be seven?) signs in the middle of the inscription.

  • [Wetzstein] Grimme, H. Texte und Untersuchungen zur ṣafatenisch-arabischen Religion. Mit einer Einführung in die ṣafatenische Epigraphik. (Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des Altertums, 16/01/2012). [Reprint, 1970, Johnson, New York]. Paderborn: Schöningh, 1929.
  • [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.
  • [MISS] Macdonald, M.C.A., Al Muʾazzin, M. & Nehmé, L. Les inscriptions safaïtiques de Syrie, cent quarante ans après leur découverte. Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions & Belles-Lettres 1996: 435-494.
  • [C] Ryckmans, G. Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum: Pars Quinta, Inscriptiones Saracenicae Continens: Tomus I, Fasciculus I, Inscriptiones Safaiticae. Paris: E Reipublicae Typographeo, 1950–1951.
Site
Ruǧm Qaʿqūl, Rif Dimašq Governorate, Syria
Date Found
1858
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Curse, Date (s¹nt), Deity, Genealogy, Group (in the narrative), Outside peoples, Place-name, Season, Watering
Old OCIANA ID
#0003673
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