WR.D 1

Interpretation

Commentary: WR.D 1 to 6 are on a cliff face, Face A, on the left bank of Wādī Rushaydah at its confluence with an unnamed a tributary. This text is high up on the face and is carved in neat incised letters. It is a Greek-Safaitic bilingual with WR.D 2. Note the form of the ēta, without a right upper vertical, as in WR.C 3, 4 and 9.

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.

Inscriptions recorded by the Safaitic Epigraphic Survey Programme in 1995 in Wādī Rushaydah, and published here.

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