WR.C 2

Siglum
WR.C 2
Transliteration
ΜΑΑΙΑΝΗϹ
OCIANA
Translation
Mʿyn
OCIANA
Language and Script
Greek

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. This text is near the top of rock A and is the first of three Greek inscriptions. Note that the ēta is of the “normal” monumental (Η) type, unlike those in WR.C 3 and 4. On the name see Macdonald 2009: I, 77, n. 90.

Associated Inscriptions

  • Macdonald, M.C.A. Literacy and Identity in Pre-Islamic Arabia. (Variorum Collected Studies, 906). Farnham: Ashgate, 2009.
  • [MISS] 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.
  • [WR.C] Inscriptions recorded by the Safaitic Epigraphic Survey Programme in 1995 in Wādī Rushaydah, and published here.
Site
Site 32.2. At the confluence of Wādī Rušaydah and an unnamed wadi, Al-Suwaydāʾ (al-Sweidah) Governorate, Syria
Date Found
1995
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Old OCIANA ID
#0035904
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Updated 16 Sep, 2024