C 990

Siglum: C 990
Alternative Sigla: Vogüé 108 a
Transliteration: l ḫlṣ bn ʾḥrb bn ms¹{k} bn l---- bn nfr bn ḫld bn ʿbd bn dʾf bn s²hr bn r{ṭ}ḫ bn ʿwḏ bn {w}hbʾ{l} {w} ḥll h- dr
Translation: By Ḫlṣ son of ʾḥrb son of {Ms¹k} son of {L----} son of Nfr son of Ḫld son of ʿbd son of Dʾf son of S²hr son of Rṭḫ son of ʿwḏ son of {Whbʾl} and he camped here

Interpretation

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" (1868–1877: 144).
Original Reading Credit: ed. pr.
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.
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