RQ.D 3

Siglum: RQ.D 3
Transliteration: l ʿm bn ʿmrn bn ʿbṭ w wgm ʿl- ʾm -h qtlt s¹nt {ʾ}rm
Translation: By ʿm son of ʿmrn son of ʿbṭ and he grieved for his paternal uncle who was killed the year of ʾrm

Interpretation

Commentary: RQ.D 3 to 5 are on the same face a stone. This text is firmly incised and written boustrophedon.

Provenance: “Rijm Qaʿqūl D” is a low outcrop with cairns and ruined structures about 100 metres south. of the water tower at the Ruḥbà. None of the inscriptions found here had been published. 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.