C 1240
Text Information
- Siglum
- C 1240
- Alternative Sigla
- RQ.A 3, Wetzstein 46 a
- Transliteration
-
l gmm bn ʾnʿm bn ʾḏnt bn ʾnʿm bn qdm w ṣyr m- mdbr s¹nt ḥgz -h bʿls¹mn ʿl- h- mdnt w wrd h- mqẓt bdr f h lt s¹lm w ʿwr w ʿrg l- ḏ yʿwr h- ḫṭṭ
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- Translation
-
By Gmm son of ʾnʿm son of ʾḏnt son of ʾnʿm son of Qdm and he returned to permanent water from the inner desert the year Bʿls¹mn withheld it [i.e. rain] from the Province [or region]. And he watered in the place where one spends the dry season during the days of the full moon. So O Lt [grant] security and [inflict] blindness and lameness on whoever may scratch out the carving.
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- Language and Script
- Safaitic
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- C: mq{f}t for mqẓt; {b-} dr for bdr; ʿr{g} for ʿrg; lʿḏ (misprint?) for l- ḏ
- Editio Princeps
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Incised
- Direction of Script
- Boustrophedon (starting from left)
- Associated Inscriptions
- [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.
- [RQ.A] Inscriptions recorded by the Safaitic Epigraphic Survey Programme in 1995 at the site which Wetzstein called Riǧm Qaʿqūl, and published here.
- [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, 1995
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Astronomical, Curse, Deity, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Movement, Season, Topographic features, Watering, Weather
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0004663
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16 Sep, 2024
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