RQ.D 8

Siglum: RQ.D 8
Transliteration: l mġyr bn wny bn ʿḏ bn ʿḏ bn ġṯ w ḫrṣ f h lt s¹lm w ḥll h- dr w {ġ}{n}{y}{t} w {ġ}{y}r l- m ʾs²rq s¹lm
Translation: By Mġyr son of Wny son of ʿḏ son of ʿḏ son of Ġṯ and he was on the look out and so O Lt [grant] security and he camped here [grant] abundance and vigilance to whoever migrated to the inner desert [and] [grant] security [to him]

Interpretation

Commentary: See the commentary to 7. This text is in scratched letters running down the right hand side of the face in vertical boustrophedon. There is a scratched sun-sign and the sign of seven lines between the two lines of text. CHECK ġyr ???

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.