C 882

Siglum: C 882
Alternative Sigla: Dunand 1219 b
Transliteration: l bʿr bn mḥlm bn gfft w tẓr s²{ʿ}{b} -h f {h} ---- s¹lm w ġnmt m- s²nʾ
Translation: By Bʿr son of Mḥlm son of Gfft and he waited for his people and O ---- [grant] security and booty from enemies.

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: C: l bʿr bn mḥlm bn gfft w tẓr s²{ʿ}{b} -h f h {l}{t} s¹lm w ġnmt 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
Original Translation Credit: C

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