C 1087

Siglum: C 1087
Alternative Sigla: Wetzstein 75, 193
Transliteration: l mġny (b)n ḥ(ṣ)ṣ bn mġny bn ḥṣṣ bn ʾḥlm bn ms¹lmʾ{l} f h lt ġnmt l- ḏ dʿy w ʿr{g} w ʿwr ʿyb {l-} ḏ ḫbl {h-} tl
Translation: By Mġny {son of} Ḥṣṣ son of Mġny son of Ḥṣṣ son of ʾḥlm son of Ms¹lmʾl and so O Lt [grant] booty to whomever reads [the text] out loud and [inflict] lameness and shameful blindness on whomever damages the words

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).

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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.
Al-Jallad, A.M. An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions. (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 80). Leiden: Brill, 2015.

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