C 1240

Siglum: C 1240
Alternative Sigla: Wetzstein 46 a; RQ.A 3
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
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.

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: C: mq{f}t for mqẓt; {b-} dr for bdr; ʿr{g} for ʿrg; lʿḏ (misprint?) for l- ḏ

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

Associated Inscriptions

Ryckmans, G. Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum: Pars Quinta, Inscriptiones Saracenicae Continens: Tomus I, Fasciculus I, Inscriptiones Safaiticae. Paris: E Reipublicae Typographeo, 1950–1951.
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.
Inscriptions recorded by the Safaitic Epigraphic Survey Programme in 1995 at the site which Wetzstein called Riǧm Qaʿqūl, and published here.

Date Found: 1858, 1995
Current Location: In situ
Subjects: Astronomical, Curse, Deity, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Movement, Season, Topographic features, Watering, Weather
Script: Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID: #0004663
Download Images