C 1151

Siglum: C 1151
Alternative Sigla: Vogüé 231 b
Transliteration: l s¹ny bn s²mt w {d}ṯʾ h- wrd bql ʿqr wḥd s¹nt qtl {h-} {r}m ʾl- {s¹}lmn
Translation: By S¹ny son of S²mt and he spent the season of the later rains at this watering place with fresh herbage being detained [there] a long time alone the year {the} {Romans} fought the ʾl {S¹lmn}

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: C: l s¹ny bn s²mt w {d}ṯʾ h- wrd b- ql ʿqr wḥd s¹nt qtl {h}{r}m ʾl- {s¹}lmn
Commentary: For the interpretation of ʿqr compare Classical Arabic ʿaqara "he detained, restrained" (Lane 2108 a–b)

Provenance: The name "Rijm Qaʿqūl" was applied by nineteenth-century travellers to at least four large outcrops at the southern end of the Ruḥba, to the south and south-west of the modern water tower. This helps to explain the curious fact that there is no overlapping between the "Rijm Qaʿqūl" copies of de Vogüé, Wetzstein and Dussaud & Macler, and only in a very few cases between those of de Vogüé and Waddington who were travelling together. The probability that there were multiple cairns with this name is supported by the fact that that while Waddington wrote that it was 10 minutes [ride] from al-ʿUdaysīyah to Rijm Qaʿqūl, Dussaud & Macler say that the journey between the two took 30 minutes. In 1995, the Safaitic Epigraphic Survey Programme identified the sites visited by Wetzstein and by Dusaud & Macler but did not find those where de Vogüé and Waddington had worked. The inscriptions found at Rijm Qaʿqūl "A" were all texts copied by Wetzstein and no one else. It is likely therefore that this is the place he regarded as "Rijm Qaʿqūl". Note that the co-ordinates given here are very approximate.
Original Reading Credit: OCIANA
Original Translation Credit: OCIANA

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