C 976
Text Information
- Siglum
- C 976
- Alternative Sigla
- Wetzstein 199 b; Vogüé 95; C 1093
- Transliteration
- l wdṣ w tffh
- Translation
- By Wdṣ and Tffh
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- C 976: hfft w ṣdwl C 1093: l wṣ w nfs²{y}
- Commentary
- C treated Vogüé 95 (= C 976) as a different inscription from Wetzstein 199 b (= C 1093) but they are almost certainly the same text.
- Provenance
- Note that the co-ordinates are estimates. De Vogüé gives the fullest description of al-ʿUdaysīyah. He writes: "Strictly speaking, the name al-ʿUdaysīyah refers to a point on the [southern] end of the Ruḥbah where there are rough ruins: one can distinguish a small tower, and some surrounding walls in dry-stonework. All around these remains, are traces of stoneworking: fragments, quarried blocks, unfinished slabs strewn all over the ground. Tradition has it that this was the quarry for Khirbat al-Bayḍā. At Al-ʿUdaysīyah itself there are no inscriptions, but within a fairly short radius of this point there are several nameless cairns which are covered with them. We explored four of these which furnished us with texts [V 56–130 = C 924–1016]. Near to one of them we found another quarry."
- Ryckmans, G. Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum: Pars Quinta, Inscriptiones Saracenicae Continens: Tomus I, Fasciculus I, Inscriptiones Safaiticae. Paris: E Reipublicae Typographeo, 1950–1951.
- Grimme, H. Texte und Untersuchungen zur ṣafatenisch-arabischen Religion. Mit einer Einführung in die ṣafatenische Epigraphik. (Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des Altertums, 16/01/2012). [Reprint, 1970, Johnson, New York]. Paderborn: Schöningh, 1929.
- de Vogüé, M. Syrie Centrale. Inscriptions sémitiques. Paris: Baudry, 1868-1877.
- Site
- Al-ʿUdaysīyah, at the southern end of the Ruḥbah, on the left [i.e. west] bank of Wādī al-Šām” ( C p.126), Rif Dimašq Governorate, Syria
- Date Found
- 1858, 1861, 1862
- Current Location
- In situ
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0004181
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