WR.D 5

Interpretation

Commentary: See the commentary to 1. This text is written boustrophedon in direct-hammered letters, withe sign of 7 dots below the second line, all enclosed in a rough cartouche.

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 33 is half way up the cliff-face on the left bank of Wādī Rushaydah at the confluence with an unnamed Wādī.

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.

Site: Site 33. Half way up the cliff-face on the left bank of Wādī Rushaydah at its confluence with an unnamed wadi, Al-Suwaydāʾ (al-Sweidah) Governorate, Syria