C 2553

Siglum
C 2553
Alternative Sigla
Dunand 136
Transliteration
l mʿn bn ʿs¹y ḏ- ʾl s²ʾm w rʿy h- ḍʾn s¹nt ʿ{r} {ʾ}bgr b- ms¹r{t} w {ʿ}mm s²ḥn b- rḥbt w mmry nr bn rs¹b f h lt w gdʿwḏ s¹lm
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Translation
By Mʿn son of ʿs¹y of the lineage of S²ʾm and he pastured the sheep the year ʾbgr travelled with the military unit and was put in command of a cavalry detachment to control the Ruḥba w mmry Nr son of Rs¹b and so O Lt and Gd-ʿwḏ [grant] security
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Language and Script
Safaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
C: ʾbʿr " camels" for {ʾ}bgr personal name; gmm "he revived himself" for {ʿ}mm "was put in command of "; {f} ḥl "and he camped" for s²ḥn "a cavalry detachment to control"; wm{m}rynrbnrs¹b for w mmry nr bn rs¹b; Macdonald 1993: 374: ms¹rt has a similar range of meanings to Syriac mašrīṯā “ camp ” and "troop, army, host ”. Macdonald 1992: 69 n. 192: s¹nt ʿr ʾbgr b- ms¹rt w gmm f ḥl b- rḥbt "the year ʾbgr went with a squadron. And there was abundant herbage and so he camped in the Ruḥba"

Editio Princeps
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  • [Hava] Hava, J.G. Al-Faraid Arabic-English Dictionary. Fifth edition. Beirut: Dār al-Mašriq, 1982.
  • [Lane] Lane, E.W. An Arabic-English Lexicon, Derived from the Best and Most Copious Eastern Sources. (Volume 1 in 8 parts [all published]). London: Williams & Norgate, 1863-1893.
  • [NAEN] Macdonald, M.C.A. North Arabian Epigraphic Notes I. Arabian archaeology and epigraphy 3, 1992: 23-43.
  • [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].
  • Macdonald, M.C.A. ‘Romans Go Home’? Rome and other ‘Outsiders’ as viewed from the Syro-Arabian Desert. Pages 145-163 in J.H.E. Dijkstra & G. Fisher (eds), Inside and Out. Interactions between Rome and the Peoples on the Arabian and Egyptian Frontiers in Late Antiquity. (Late Antique History and Religion, 8). Louvain: Peeters, 2014.
  • [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
Date (s¹nt), Deity, Domestic animals, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Military, Pasturing, Place-name
Old OCIANA ID
#0005757
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