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C 874

Text Information

Siglum
C 874
Alternative Sigla
Dunand 1215 c
Transliteration
l zd bn nmtn bn nġbr bn s¹lm hq(d)s¹s¹r
Translation
By Zd son of Nmtn son of Nġbr son of S¹lm hq(d)s¹s¹r

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
C: h- qds¹ s¹r "temple slave (?). He migrated (?)" for hq(d)s¹s¹r

Provenance
Khirbat al-Umbāshī is a site on an "island" in a Wādī, with settlements dating mostly from the second half of the third millennium to the early second millennium BC. In addition there are two large cemeteries to the east and south-west with over 1000 megalithic tombs (see Braemer, Echallier & Taraqji 1993). It is at the northern extremity of the Kraa (al-Qaraʾah) and about 30 km from nearest villages on Jabal al-ʿArab. The cairn where these inscriptions were copied has not been rediscovered.

  • Ryckmans, G. Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum: Pars Quinta, Inscriptiones Saracenicae Continens: Tomus I, Fasciculus I, Inscriptiones Safaiticae. Paris: E Reipublicae Typographeo, 1950–1951.
Site
A cairn north of Ḫirbat al-Umbāšī, Al-Suwaydāʾ (al-Sweidah) Governorate, Syria
Date Found
1920s & 1930s
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0004079
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