C 3064

Siglum
C 3064
Alternative Sigla
Dunand 785
Transliteration
l ṣḥb bn bʿr bn zbdʾl bn s²mt w wgm ʿl- ʾḫ -h rġm mny w ṣyr m- mdbr ḫs¹f h- ḍʾn s¹nt ḫs¹f ʿr h- mlk b- s¹r{w} yrḫn
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Translation
By Ṣḥb son of Bʿr son of Zbdʾl son of S²mt and he grieved for his brother struck down by Fate and he returned to water from the inner desert the sheep being emaciated the year the king's caravan starved in sloping ground rising from a valley up to the face of a mountain for two months
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Language and Script
Safaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
C: rs²m mny for rġm mny; ḫs¹f "died" for "starved"; b- s¹rw yrḫn "in the the highlands of Yrḫn [?]" for "in sloping ground rising from a valley up to the face of a mountain for two months"; WH 2411 commentary, p. 362: ḫs¹f h- ḍʾn s¹nt ḫs¹f ʿr h- mlk bs¹r() yrḫn "leading the sheep, the year that the caravan of the king perished (or "was engulfed") in the valley of Yrḫn"; CSNS commentary to no. 957, pp. 389–390: s¹r[r] for s¹r{w}; ḫs¹f h- ḍʾn s¹nt ḫs¹f ʿr h- mlk b- s¹r[r] yrḫn "the sheep having been swallowed up, in the year the asses of the king were swallowed up in the [lowland] of Yrḫn"; King 1990: 67, n. 16: yrḫn "two months";

  • [CSNS] Clark, V.A. A Study of New Safaitic Inscriptions from Jordan. Thesis presented for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Melbourne. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, 1979 [1983].
  • [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.
  • [C] Ryckmans, G. Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum: Pars Quinta, Inscriptiones Saracenicae Continens: Tomus I, Fasciculus I, Inscriptiones Safaiticae. Paris: E Reipublicae Typographeo, 1950–1951.
  • [WH] Winnett, F.V. & Harding, G.L. Inscriptions from Fifty Safaitic Cairns. (Near and Middle East Series, 9). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1978. No. 2411 pp 362
Site
Zalaf (k) “On the left bank of Wādī al-Šām about 3 km upstream towards Zalaf” (C p. 381)., Rif Dimašq Governorate, Syria
Date Found
1920s and 1930s
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Date (s¹nt), Domestic animals, Genealogy, Grieving, Movement, Relatives, Topographic features, Watering
Old OCIANA ID
#0006268
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