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LP 170

Siglum
LP 170
Alternative Sigla
RR 12
Transliteration
l mġny bn ẓnn bn gḥs² bn ʾnʿm
Translation
By Mġny son of Ẓnn son of Gḥs² son of ʾnʿm

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
LP: glny for mġny
Commentary
On a stone with LP 169 (= RR 13) and an elaborate drawing of a camel. This text is chiselled in a coil on the right of the face. LP wrongly reads the first name as glny.

Provenance
Ruǧm al-Ruṣayʿī is a large cairn with many inscriptions of which Littmann copied only 5. It is c. 1.75 km, as the crow flies, from Biʾr al-Ruṣayʿī, around which there are many cairns, and it is not clear why was given the name Rijm al-Ruṣayʿī. The local bedouin do not appear to know it as this today.

  • 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.
  • Inscriptions recorded by the Safaitic Epigraphic Survey Programme in 1995 at Riǧm al-Ruṣayʿī, and published here.
Site
Ruǧm al-Ruṣayʿī, Al-Suwaydāʾ (al-Sweidah) Governorate, Syria
Date Found
1904, 1995
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0008754
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