C 1187

Siglum: C 1187
Alternative Sigla: Waddington 189 c, Vogüé 389 c
Transliteration: [l] ʿqrb bn m[d][ʿ]} bn s²m[t] [b][n] ḫ{l}ʾl w ḥll h- [d][r] w d(ṯ)ʾ h- w(r)d b- s¹(b)ṭ
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Translation: {By} ʿqrb son of {Mdʿ} son of {S²mt} {son of} {Ḫlʾl} and he camped {here} and {spent the season of the later rains} at this {watering place} in {Sbṭ}.
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Language and Script: Safaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: C: l for [l];
Commentary: C's reading is taken from Waddington's copy but it is difficult to reconcile this with de Vogüé's, both in terms of the lay-out and the letters. Waddington 189 was never fully published. It does not appear at all in Ryckmans G 1939, and only inscriptions 189 c and e are published in C, and in the text rather than on the plates. The reason fro this is not explained. In this chaotic situation we have followed C in taking the reading from Waddington's copy with occasional "corrections" from de Vogüé's, but it should be noted that it is extremely uncertain. De Vogüé's copy shows that the l before the first name is the last latter of C 1186. There is a small curved mark above the ʿ of ʿqrb but this cannot be a lām auctoris. The arrangement on de Vogüé's copy suggests that the major part of the C 1186 beginning f h gdʿwḏ ... may well belong to this text rather than to C 1186, though it was not apparently copied as such by Waddington. So, given the uncertainties about C 1187, it seems safer to retain C's arrangement until such as time as the stone can be rediscovered.

Associated Drawings: A drawing showing the breaking in of a filly by four men, with a camel in the background
Associated Inscriptions: C 1185–1186, 1188–1189

[Vogüé] de Vogüé, M. Syrie Centrale. Inscriptions sémitiques. Paris: Baudry, 1868-1877.
[Waddington] Ryckmans, G. Inscriptions safaïtiques relevées par Waddington. Le Muséon 52, 1939: 113-144.
[C] Ryckmans, G. Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum: Pars Quinta, Inscriptiones Saracenicae Continens: Tomus I, Fasciculus I, Inscriptiones Safaiticae. Paris: E Reipublicae Typographeo, 1950–1951.

Date Found: 1861, 1862
Current Location: In situ
Subjects: Camping, Genealogy, Place-name, Present in a place, Season, Watering
Old OCIANA ID: #0004610
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