filename,copyright,inscription_siglum,provenance,editio_princeps,field_collector,reference_sigla,short_citations,transliteration,translation,commentary,commentary_author,site,ociana_link
im0099048.jpg,,SESP.S 2,"At 21.3 km east of Rushayda and at 7.5 km west of Biʾr al-Ruṣayʿī, the Rushaydah-Zalaf road crosses a small tributary of Wādī al-Shām called by the local Bedouins Umm al-Ǧathādir (its confluence with Wādī al-Shām is 1.5 km to the north-east). Site SESP.S is approximately 200 m north-north-east of site SESP.U on the same (right) bank of  Umm al-Ǧathādir. It is a large cairn on top of the promontory (about.10 m above the Wādī bed), overlooking the point at which the tributary Wādī turns east, approximately 1 km before its confluence with Wādī al-Shām. This is site D in Macdonald, Al Muʾazzin & Nehmé 1996.",,,"MISS, SESP.S, SESP.U","Macdonald MCA, Al Muʾazzin & Nehmé 1996; SESP.S; SESP.U",l ḍhd bn ʿbd bn ḍhd bn ʿbd bn ḏʾb bn nʿmn bn kn bn nʿmn [[]][[]][[]][[]][[]][[]]bn wʿl bn rbn bn s²ʿr bn kn bn ṭḥrt bn hys¹r bn bʾs² bn ḍf w h lt s¹lm l- ḏ {d}ʿy w nqʾt l- ḏ ḫbl h- s¹{f}r,By Ḍhd son of ʿbd son of Ḍhd son of ʿbd son of Ḏʾb son of Nʿmn son of Kn son of Nʿmn son of Wʿl son of Rbn son of S²ʿr son of Kn son of Ṭḥrt son of Hys¹r son of Bʾs² son of Ḍf and O Lt [grant] security to whoever {reads [the inscription] aloud} and [inflict] ejection from the grave on him who destroys this {inscription},"As in SESP.S 1, the genealogy here has 16 generations but shows a rather distant branch of the tribal genealogy from that in SESP.1.

SESP.S 2–4 are by three brothers. SESP.2–4 demonstrate two of the three methods of marking affiliation to a social group. In SESP 2 this is done by tracing the author's lineage to the eponymous ancestor of his group, while the authors of SESP.S 3 and 4 use the expression ḏ- ʾl (""he of the lineage of"") plus the group's name. These three inscriptions show that the ʾl Kn was a sub-group of the ʾl ḍf.

Although the last letter of the sixth name is much longer than the first and looks like a l, comparison with the other kn genealogies shows that the name must be nʿmn. After the second nʿmn there are six letters which have been scratched over so effectively that it is difficult to work out what they were. For the interpretation of dʿy see Al-Jallad 2015: 309 and for the interpretation of nqʾt see Al-Jallad 2015: 335.",,"Unnamed, Al-Suwaydāʾ (al-Sweidah) Governorate, Syria",https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/22513
im0099050.jpg,,SESP.S 2,"At 21.3 km east of Rushayda and at 7.5 km west of Biʾr al-Ruṣayʿī, the Rushaydah-Zalaf road crosses a small tributary of Wādī al-Shām called by the local Bedouins Umm al-Ǧathādir (its confluence with Wādī al-Shām is 1.5 km to the north-east). Site SESP.S is approximately 200 m north-north-east of site SESP.U on the same (right) bank of  Umm al-Ǧathādir. It is a large cairn on top of the promontory (about.10 m above the Wādī bed), overlooking the point at which the tributary Wādī turns east, approximately 1 km before its confluence with Wādī al-Shām. This is site D in Macdonald, Al Muʾazzin & Nehmé 1996.",,,"MISS, SESP.S, SESP.U","Macdonald MCA, Al Muʾazzin & Nehmé 1996; SESP.S; SESP.U",l ḍhd bn ʿbd bn ḍhd bn ʿbd bn ḏʾb bn nʿmn bn kn bn nʿmn [[]][[]][[]][[]][[]][[]]bn wʿl bn rbn bn s²ʿr bn kn bn ṭḥrt bn hys¹r bn bʾs² bn ḍf w h lt s¹lm l- ḏ {d}ʿy w nqʾt l- ḏ ḫbl h- s¹{f}r,By Ḍhd son of ʿbd son of Ḍhd son of ʿbd son of Ḏʾb son of Nʿmn son of Kn son of Nʿmn son of Wʿl son of Rbn son of S²ʿr son of Kn son of Ṭḥrt son of Hys¹r son of Bʾs² son of Ḍf and O Lt [grant] security to whoever {reads [the inscription] aloud} and [inflict] ejection from the grave on him who destroys this {inscription},"As in SESP.S 1, the genealogy here has 16 generations but shows a rather distant branch of the tribal genealogy from that in SESP.1.

SESP.S 2–4 are by three brothers. SESP.2–4 demonstrate two of the three methods of marking affiliation to a social group. In SESP 2 this is done by tracing the author's lineage to the eponymous ancestor of his group, while the authors of SESP.S 3 and 4 use the expression ḏ- ʾl (""he of the lineage of"") plus the group's name. These three inscriptions show that the ʾl Kn was a sub-group of the ʾl ḍf.

Although the last letter of the sixth name is much longer than the first and looks like a l, comparison with the other kn genealogies shows that the name must be nʿmn. After the second nʿmn there are six letters which have been scratched over so effectively that it is difficult to work out what they were. For the interpretation of dʿy see Al-Jallad 2015: 309 and for the interpretation of nqʾt see Al-Jallad 2015: 335.",,"Unnamed, Al-Suwaydāʾ (al-Sweidah) Governorate, Syria",https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/22513
im0056773.jpg,,SESP.S 2,"At 21.3 km east of Rushayda and at 7.5 km west of Biʾr al-Ruṣayʿī, the Rushaydah-Zalaf road crosses a small tributary of Wādī al-Shām called by the local Bedouins Umm al-Ǧathādir (its confluence with Wādī al-Shām is 1.5 km to the north-east). Site SESP.S is approximately 200 m north-north-east of site SESP.U on the same (right) bank of  Umm al-Ǧathādir. It is a large cairn on top of the promontory (about.10 m above the Wādī bed), overlooking the point at which the tributary Wādī turns east, approximately 1 km before its confluence with Wādī al-Shām. This is site D in Macdonald, Al Muʾazzin & Nehmé 1996.",,,"MISS, SESP.S, SESP.U","Macdonald MCA, Al Muʾazzin & Nehmé 1996; SESP.S; SESP.U",l ḍhd bn ʿbd bn ḍhd bn ʿbd bn ḏʾb bn nʿmn bn kn bn nʿmn [[]][[]][[]][[]][[]][[]]bn wʿl bn rbn bn s²ʿr bn kn bn ṭḥrt bn hys¹r bn bʾs² bn ḍf w h lt s¹lm l- ḏ {d}ʿy w nqʾt l- ḏ ḫbl h- s¹{f}r,By Ḍhd son of ʿbd son of Ḍhd son of ʿbd son of Ḏʾb son of Nʿmn son of Kn son of Nʿmn son of Wʿl son of Rbn son of S²ʿr son of Kn son of Ṭḥrt son of Hys¹r son of Bʾs² son of Ḍf and O Lt [grant] security to whoever {reads [the inscription] aloud} and [inflict] ejection from the grave on him who destroys this {inscription},"As in SESP.S 1, the genealogy here has 16 generations but shows a rather distant branch of the tribal genealogy from that in SESP.1.

SESP.S 2–4 are by three brothers. SESP.2–4 demonstrate two of the three methods of marking affiliation to a social group. In SESP 2 this is done by tracing the author's lineage to the eponymous ancestor of his group, while the authors of SESP.S 3 and 4 use the expression ḏ- ʾl (""he of the lineage of"") plus the group's name. These three inscriptions show that the ʾl Kn was a sub-group of the ʾl ḍf.

Although the last letter of the sixth name is much longer than the first and looks like a l, comparison with the other kn genealogies shows that the name must be nʿmn. After the second nʿmn there are six letters which have been scratched over so effectively that it is difficult to work out what they were. For the interpretation of dʿy see Al-Jallad 2015: 309 and for the interpretation of nqʾt see Al-Jallad 2015: 335.",,"Unnamed, Al-Suwaydāʾ (al-Sweidah) Governorate, Syria",https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/22513
im0056774.jpg,,SESP.S 2,"At 21.3 km east of Rushayda and at 7.5 km west of Biʾr al-Ruṣayʿī, the Rushaydah-Zalaf road crosses a small tributary of Wādī al-Shām called by the local Bedouins Umm al-Ǧathādir (its confluence with Wādī al-Shām is 1.5 km to the north-east). Site SESP.S is approximately 200 m north-north-east of site SESP.U on the same (right) bank of  Umm al-Ǧathādir. It is a large cairn on top of the promontory (about.10 m above the Wādī bed), overlooking the point at which the tributary Wādī turns east, approximately 1 km before its confluence with Wādī al-Shām. This is site D in Macdonald, Al Muʾazzin & Nehmé 1996.",,,"MISS, SESP.S, SESP.U","Macdonald MCA, Al Muʾazzin & Nehmé 1996; SESP.S; SESP.U",l ḍhd bn ʿbd bn ḍhd bn ʿbd bn ḏʾb bn nʿmn bn kn bn nʿmn [[]][[]][[]][[]][[]][[]]bn wʿl bn rbn bn s²ʿr bn kn bn ṭḥrt bn hys¹r bn bʾs² bn ḍf w h lt s¹lm l- ḏ {d}ʿy w nqʾt l- ḏ ḫbl h- s¹{f}r,By Ḍhd son of ʿbd son of Ḍhd son of ʿbd son of Ḏʾb son of Nʿmn son of Kn son of Nʿmn son of Wʿl son of Rbn son of S²ʿr son of Kn son of Ṭḥrt son of Hys¹r son of Bʾs² son of Ḍf and O Lt [grant] security to whoever {reads [the inscription] aloud} and [inflict] ejection from the grave on him who destroys this {inscription},"As in SESP.S 1, the genealogy here has 16 generations but shows a rather distant branch of the tribal genealogy from that in SESP.1.

SESP.S 2–4 are by three brothers. SESP.2–4 demonstrate two of the three methods of marking affiliation to a social group. In SESP 2 this is done by tracing the author's lineage to the eponymous ancestor of his group, while the authors of SESP.S 3 and 4 use the expression ḏ- ʾl (""he of the lineage of"") plus the group's name. These three inscriptions show that the ʾl Kn was a sub-group of the ʾl ḍf.

Although the last letter of the sixth name is much longer than the first and looks like a l, comparison with the other kn genealogies shows that the name must be nʿmn. After the second nʿmn there are six letters which have been scratched over so effectively that it is difficult to work out what they were. For the interpretation of dʿy see Al-Jallad 2015: 309 and for the interpretation of nqʾt see Al-Jallad 2015: 335.",,"Unnamed, Al-Suwaydāʾ (al-Sweidah) Governorate, Syria",https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/22513
im0056775.jpg,,SESP.S 2,"At 21.3 km east of Rushayda and at 7.5 km west of Biʾr al-Ruṣayʿī, the Rushaydah-Zalaf road crosses a small tributary of Wādī al-Shām called by the local Bedouins Umm al-Ǧathādir (its confluence with Wādī al-Shām is 1.5 km to the north-east). Site SESP.S is approximately 200 m north-north-east of site SESP.U on the same (right) bank of  Umm al-Ǧathādir. It is a large cairn on top of the promontory (about.10 m above the Wādī bed), overlooking the point at which the tributary Wādī turns east, approximately 1 km before its confluence with Wādī al-Shām. This is site D in Macdonald, Al Muʾazzin & Nehmé 1996.",,,"MISS, SESP.S, SESP.U","Macdonald MCA, Al Muʾazzin & Nehmé 1996; SESP.S; SESP.U",l ḍhd bn ʿbd bn ḍhd bn ʿbd bn ḏʾb bn nʿmn bn kn bn nʿmn [[]][[]][[]][[]][[]][[]]bn wʿl bn rbn bn s²ʿr bn kn bn ṭḥrt bn hys¹r bn bʾs² bn ḍf w h lt s¹lm l- ḏ {d}ʿy w nqʾt l- ḏ ḫbl h- s¹{f}r,By Ḍhd son of ʿbd son of Ḍhd son of ʿbd son of Ḏʾb son of Nʿmn son of Kn son of Nʿmn son of Wʿl son of Rbn son of S²ʿr son of Kn son of Ṭḥrt son of Hys¹r son of Bʾs² son of Ḍf and O Lt [grant] security to whoever {reads [the inscription] aloud} and [inflict] ejection from the grave on him who destroys this {inscription},"As in SESP.S 1, the genealogy here has 16 generations but shows a rather distant branch of the tribal genealogy from that in SESP.1.

SESP.S 2–4 are by three brothers. SESP.2–4 demonstrate two of the three methods of marking affiliation to a social group. In SESP 2 this is done by tracing the author's lineage to the eponymous ancestor of his group, while the authors of SESP.S 3 and 4 use the expression ḏ- ʾl (""he of the lineage of"") plus the group's name. These three inscriptions show that the ʾl Kn was a sub-group of the ʾl ḍf.

Although the last letter of the sixth name is much longer than the first and looks like a l, comparison with the other kn genealogies shows that the name must be nʿmn. After the second nʿmn there are six letters which have been scratched over so effectively that it is difficult to work out what they were. For the interpretation of dʿy see Al-Jallad 2015: 309 and for the interpretation of nqʾt see Al-Jallad 2015: 335.",,"Unnamed, Al-Suwaydāʾ (al-Sweidah) Governorate, Syria",https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/22513
