C 4417

Siglum
C 4417
Alternative Sigla
LP 217, Dussaud M 526 a
Transliteration
l ḥml bn ns²bt w ṣyr m- mlḥ
OCIANA
Translation
By Ḥml son of Ns²bt and he returned to water because [the sun was in] Aquarius
OCIANA
Language and Script
Safaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
C: w ṣ(y)r (ʿ)m ms¹ḥ "and he arrived with the migration" for w ṣyr m- mlḥ for "and and he returned to water because [the sun was in] Aquarius"

  • Al-Jallad, A. An Ancient Arabian Zodiac. The Constellations in the Safaitic Inscriptions. Part II. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 27, 2016: 84–106.
  • [Dussaud M] Dussaud, R. & Macler, F. Mission dans les régions désertiques de la Syrie moyenne. Extrait des /Nouvelles Archives des Missions Scientifiques/, t. X [p. 405-744, ps. 1-31 ]. Paris: Imprimerie nationale / Leroux, 1903.
  • [KhU] Inscriptions recorded by Frank Braemer at Khirbat Umbāshī in 1996 and published here
  • [KRS] Inscriptions recorded by Geraldine King on the Basalt Desert Rescue Survey in north-eastern Jordan in 1989 and published here No. 1563, 3117
  • [LP] Littmann, E. Safaïtic Inscriptions. Syria. Publications of the Princeton University Archaeological Expeditions to Syria in 1904–1905 and 1909. Division IV. Section C. Leiden: Brill, 1943.
  • [C] Ryckmans, G. Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum: Pars Quinta, Inscriptiones Saracenicae Continens: Tomus I, Fasciculus I, Inscriptiones Safaiticae. Paris: E Reipublicae Typographeo, 1950–1951.
  • [WH] Winnett, F.V. & Harding, G.L. Inscriptions from Fifty Safaitic Cairns. (Near and Middle East Series, 9). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1978.
Site
Al-Mrōšan, Al-Suwaydāʾ (al-Sweidah) Governorate, Syria
Date Found
1901, 1904–1905
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Astronomical, Genealogy, Movement, Watering
Old OCIANA ID
#0007621
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Updated 16 Sep, 2024 by OCIANA

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OCIANA, 'C 4417,' ed. A. Al-Jallad and M.C.A. Macdonald, OCIANA, 16 Sep, 2024. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/1782. Accessed: 14 Mar, 2026.