C 285
Text Information
- Siglum
- C 285
- Alternative Sigla
- Dunand 1338
- Transliteration
- l bṯ w nyk bgrmh f ʾtm zf f qd ʾbṣ
- Translation
- By Bṯ and he had sex with Bgrmh, and had to do with Zf, and ʿbṣ was the pimp
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- l bṯ w nyk bgrmh f ʾtm zf f qd: By Bṯ and he copulated with Grmh, for he had celebrated the sending of the bride and had been pleases" (Al-Jallad 2015: 105).
- Provenance
- Unfortunately C does not supply any further information on the provenance of this inscription and, to the best of our knowledge, the area has not been revisited. We have been unable to locate Wādī Gharah.
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Ryckmans, G. Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum: Pars Quinta, Inscriptiones Saracenicae Continens: Tomus I, Fasciculus I, Inscriptiones Safaiticae. Paris: E Reipublicae Typographeo, 1950–1951.
- Al-Jallad, A.M. An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions. (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 80). Leiden: Brill, 2015.
- Site
- "On the right bank of Wādī Ġarah near a bridge" (C p. 41),, Rif Dimašq Governorate, Syria
- Date Found
- 1920s and 1930s
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0003490
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