C 1713

Siglum: C 1713
Alternative Sigla: Dunand 422 a
Transliteration: l ṣby bn ḥmnt bn ms¹k bn ẓʿn bn s²rb bn ġlmt w ḥl h- dr nfr m- h- rm w ḫl ḥwlt f h gdwhbʾl fṣy
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Translation: By Ṣby son of Ḥmnt son of Ms¹k son of Ẓʿn son of S²rb son of Ġlmt and he camped here while fleeing from the Romans and the Ḥwlt horsemen and so O Gdwhbʾl [grant] deliverance
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Language and Script: Safaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: C: w ḫl ḥwlt "and he entered among the Ḥwlt"; f h gd whb {ḫ}l fṣy "and O Gadd give strength and deliverance" for f h gdwhbʾl fṣy "O Gdwhbʾl [grant] {deliverance}". Milik 1972: 100-101, followed by Macdonald 2009, II: 332 and n. 186: w ḥl h- dr nfr m- hrm w ḫl ḥwlt f h gdwhb'l fṣy "and he camped in this place having escaped from the Romans and the cavalry of the Ḥwlt and Gdwhbʾl [grant] deliverance".

Macdonald, M.C.A. Literacy and Identity in Pre-Islamic Arabia. (Variorum Collected Studies, 906). Farnham: Ashgate, 2009.
Milik, J.T. Dédicaces faites par des dieux (Palmyre, Hatra, Tyr) et des thiases sémitiques à l'époque romaine. Recherches d'épigraphie proche-orientale, 1. (Bibliothèque archéologique et historique, 92). Paris: Geuthner, 1972.
[C] Ryckmans, G. Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum: Pars Quinta, Inscriptiones Saracenicae Continens: Tomus I, Fasciculus I, Inscriptiones Safaiticae. Paris: E Reipublicae Typographeo, 1950–1951.

Site: Zalaf (c) “To the south of Zalaf in a place near the larger ḫabrah [a depression in the plain where water gathers] or Ḫabrah kubrā [?]” (C p. 225)., Rif Dimašq Governorate, Syria

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