WR.C 4

Interpretation

Commentary: WR.C 1-8 are on rock A, a large rock face overlooking Wādī Rushaydah just upstream of its confluence with a tributary. See Macdonald, Al Muʾazzin & Nehmé 1996: 480–484 for a commentary on this text and Macdonald forthcoming a for a longer commentary on the almost identical text Mg 1. Note that this is one of the few occasions on which we are able to vocalize names which are otherwise known only from the purely consonantal Safaitic orthography.Another Greek text (Mg 1) by the same author is on the same stone as a Safaitic text (Ms 29) by another member of the ʾl Kn. Note that the ēta is of the type without the upper right vertical, as in WR.C 3 and 9, and WR.D 1.

Provenance: Some 8 km from the village of Rushaydah on the road to Zalaf. A cairn on the right bank of Wādī Rushayda, on a promontory at its confluence with another smaller Wādī coming from the south-west. The promontory is littered with huge boulders and fallen pieces of the cliff. The highest point of the promontory is crowned with a cairn, itself surmounted by a small cylindrical tower of stones. At the foot of the cairn are 2 Bedouin tombs. Site 32.2 is approximately 20 m north of this tower. This is site I in Macdonald, Al Muʾazzin & Nehmé 1996.

Macdonald, M.C.A., Al Muʾazzin, M. & Nehmé, L. Les inscriptions safaïtiques de Syrie, cent quarante ans après leur découverte. Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions & Belles-Lettres 1996: 435-494.
Macdonald, M.C.A. North Arabian Inscriptions and Drawings. Arabian Epigraphic Notes, (in press)

Site: Site 32.2. At the confluence of Wādī Rušaydah and an unnamed wadi, Al-Suwaydāʾ (al-Sweidah) Governorate, Syria