WR.C 9

Interpretation

Commentary: WR.C 9-13 are on Rock B which is immediately to the left of Rock A. This text is at the top of the face. Note that the ēta has the same form as in WR.C 3 and 4 and WR.D 1. The name recurs in WR.C 3.

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.

Associated Inscriptions

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.
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