C 3258

Siglum: C 3258
Alternative Sigla: Is.M 153, LSI 120
Transliteration: l ḥddn bn ʿbd bn s¹ʿd bn ḥddn bn ʿbd bn ml{k} w ḫrṣ -h wḥd f s²ʿnʿr {l-} {-h} s²hrt
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Translation: By Ḥddn son of ʿbd son of S¹ʿd son of Ḥddn son of ʿbd son of {Mlk} and someone was watching him and so S²ʿ-nʿr [give] {to him} [the author] knowledge [of he watcher's whereabouts]
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Language and Script: Safaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: C 3258: mn(y) for ml{k}; f fn grs¹ “and a breach; lowering (?)” for f s²ʿ nʿr "and so S²ʿnʿr"; s²hrt not read. LSI 120: s¹[ʿ]d for s¹ʿd; ml hw ḫr(ṣ) hw ḥdf f ngrs¹ “Ml; he pierced with his lance (?) he struck with his sword (?) and he became famous” for ml{k} w ḫrs¹ -h wḥd f s²ʿ nʿr "{Mlk} and someone was watching him and so S²ʿ-nʿr"; s²hrt not read.

Special Letter Forms: k in mlk consists of a long straightstem with a smaller curve up against one end.
Technique: Incised
Direction of Script: Boustrophedon

[Is.M] Inscriptions recorded at al-ʿĪsāwī by Michael Macdonald, on the Safaitic Epigraphic Survey Programme, 1995–2003, and published here.
[LSI] Littmann, E. Semitic Inscriptions. Part IV of the Publications of an American Archaeological Expedition to Syria in 1899-1900. New York: Century, 1904.
[LP] Littmann, E. Safaïtic Inscriptions. Syria. Publications of the Princeton University Archaeological Expeditions to Syria in 1904–1905 and 1909. Division IV. Section C. Leiden: Brill, 1943.
Ryckmans, G. Les noms propres sud-sémitiques. (3 volumes). (Bibliothèque du Muséon, 2). Louvain: Bureaux du Muséon, 1934-1935.
[C] Ryckmans, G. Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum: Pars Quinta, Inscriptiones Saracenicae Continens: Tomus I, Fasciculus I, Inscriptiones Safaiticae. Paris: E Reipublicae Typographeo, 1950–1951.

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