RQ.A 5

Siglum: RQ.A 5
Transliteration: l s¹ʿd bn gls¹ bn ṣʿd bn mḥlm bn ʾnʿm bn lʿṯmn w wgm ʿl- ʾb {-h) w ʿl- ʾ---- w ---- w ʿl- ʾḫt -h w ʿl- ---- {w} ʿl- {ʾ}{l}{ṣ}qt---- ʿl- ʾnʿm w ʿl- ḥg ḥb {-h} w ʿl- ----rq---- s¹nt qbr w ʿl- {ġ}fr w ʿḥmn s¹by s¹nt qbr w ʿl- ṣḥrt w ʿl- gb w ʿl- ---- w ʿl- ṣrf
Translation: By S¹ʿd son of Gls¹ son of Ṣʿd son of Mḥlm son of ʾnʿm son of Lʿṯmn and he grieved for his father and for ʾ---- and ---- and for his sister and for ---- and for ʾlṣqt [and] for ʾnʿm and for Ḥg his beloved and for Rq the year of Qbr and for Ġfr and for ʿḥmn who was a prisoner the year of Qbr and for Ṣḥrt and for Gb and for ---- and for Ṣrf

Interpretation

Provenance: “Rijm Qaʿqūl A” is about 900 m to the south-east of the Ruḥbah water tower, on the right bank of Wādī Shām before it arrives in the Ruḥbah. It is a large cairn with a few ruined houses and very few inscriptions. The name "Rijm Qaʿqūl" was applied by nineteenth-century visitors to at least four large outcrops at the southern end of the Ruḥbah, 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 (de Vogüé 1868–1877: nos. 212–215, 217, 219–224, 226–234, 389) and Waddington (de Vogüé 1868–1877: nos. 235–253, 388, 390–393, 397–400), Wetzstein (1860: nos 41–48, and at "a mound 10 minutes from Rijm Qaʿqūl", nos 68–88) and Dussaud/ Macler (1903: nos 30–51, 53–124), and only in a very few cases between those of de Vogüé and Waddington. We only identified the site visited by Wetzstein (Rijm Qaʿqūl A) and by but have not yet found those where de Vogüé /Waddington and Dusaud/Macler worked. The inscriptions we 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".