C 5179

Siglum
C 5179
Alternative Sigla
Dura Europos S 5, Eṣ-Ṣāliḥīye 5
Transliteration
{ṣ}{b}{ḥ} bn n{s¹}{k} bn yḍr
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Translation
{Ṣbḥ} son of {Ns¹k} son of Yḍr
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Language and Script
Safaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
Torrey 1931: 176, followed by C: h- s¹rb w h- bd ḍb "the camel train and Bedouin Ḍb".
Commentary
A band of rough lime runs through centre of the letters, obscuring parts of them. We have taken the first letter as ṣ, though the loop is barely visible on the photograph. The upper part of the second letter is very faint while the lower is very thick and touches the rather square ḥ which follows. The b of bn is clear and seems to be followed by two dot n’s cut into the band of lime which runs through the middle of the s1 which follows. This is presumably the reason that Torrey copied it as a ḥ, though he read it as a w. There is no sign on the photograph of the stem of the next letter which Torrey copied as a h. Instead there is a third, fainter "prong" to the left of the other two, making it a ḥ at 90° to the direction of the text, or more likely a k. The following bn is clear and the next letter is probably a y. What at first sight appears to be part of the stem above the loop can, on closer examination, be seen to be a thinner line which is not quite joined to the letter. The lower half of the next letter does not show up well on the photograph but is consistent with it being a ḍ, as shown on Torrey's copy, and the final letter is different from the bs and is perhaps more likely to be a r. The first name, if we have read it correctly, is very well attested in Safaitic, and the second is also known. The third has been found only once before in this form, in ISB 58, where it is at the top end of a genealogy of eleven generations. [Commentary adapted from Macdonald 2005: 122–123, by kind permission of Brill, Leiden]

  • [Dura Europos S] Macdonald, M.C.A. The Safaitic inscriptions at Dura Europos. Pages 118–129 (+ references on 227-247) in E. Cussini (ed.), A Journey to Palmyra. Collected Essays to Remember Delbert R. Hillers. (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, 22). Leiden / Boston: Brill, 2005.
  • [C] Ryckmans, G. Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum: Pars Quinta, Inscriptiones Saracenicae Continens: Tomus I, Fasciculus I, Inscriptiones Safaiticae. Paris: E Reipublicae Typographeo, 1950–1951.
  • [Eṣ-Ṣāliḥīye] Torrey, C.C. The Safaitic Inscriptions. Pages 172-177 in P.V.C. Baur and M.I. Rostovtzeff (eds), The Excavations at Dura-Europos conducted by Yale University and the French Academy of Inscriptions and Letters. Preliminary Report of Second Season of Work October 1928 — April 1929. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1931.
Site
Dura Europos (Al-Ṣālihiyyah), Dayr al-Zawr (Deir ez-Zor) Governorate, Syria
Date Found
1928–1929, 1995
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Old OCIANA ID
#0008383
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