C 2473

Siglum
C 2473
Alternative Sigla
Dunand 82
Transliteration
l s²hyt bn ḥg w ʾhmd ʾbl f rdf m- glʿd
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Translation
By S²hyt son of Ḥg and he stayed at Abila and then returned from Gilead
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Language and Script
Safaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
C: w ʾhmd ʾbl frd f mg{d} gd "and the male camels declined mortally. And Gd satisfied with green fodder". Macdonald 1993: 333: w ʾhmd ʾbl f rdf m- glʿd "and he stayed at Abila and then returned from Gilead".

  • [KR] King, G.M.H. The Basalt Desert Rescue Survey and Some Preliminary Remarks on the Safaitic Inscriptions and Rock Drawings. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 20, 1990: 55-78.
  • [MNH] Macdonald, M.C.A. Nomads and the Ḥawrān in the late Hellenistic and Roman periods: A reassessment of the epigraphic evidence. Syria 70, 1993: 303-413. [Reprinted with the same pagination, plus addenda and corrigenda as Article II in M.C.A. Macdonald, Literacy and Identity in Pre-Islamic Arabia, (Variorum Collected Studies Series no. 906), Farnham: Ashgate, 2009].
  • [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 (j) “In the neighbourhood of Zalaf near Wādī al-Šām” (C p. 304)., Rif Dimašq Governorate, Syria
Date Found
1920s and 1930s
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Genealogy, Movement, Place-name
Old OCIANA ID
#0005677
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