C 879

Siglum: C 879
Alternative Sigla: Dunand 1217
Transliteration: l yqdm bn ẓnnʾl bn yqm bn ns²ʿʾ{l} w rʿ h- ʾdd h rḍw s¹lm [m-] s²nʾ
Translation: By Yqdm son of Ẓnnʾl son of Yqm son of {Ns²ʿʾl} and .... O Rḍw [grant] security [from] enemies.

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: C: yqdm bn ẓnnʾl bn yq(d)m bn ns²ʿʾl w rʿ h- ʾdd h rḍw s¹lm (m-) s²nʾ

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.
Original Reading Credit: OCIANA

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