Sigla: C 187; Dunand 1279  Script: Safaitic

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Transliteration
l ngh bn ḥzqn h- bkrt

Translation
By Ngh son of Ḥzqn is the young she- camel

Subjects
Genealogy

Country: Syria
Region: Rif Dimashq
Site: "In the area between Ǧabal Says and Wādī Ghara"
Site number: 25
Present Location: In situ
Find date: 1920s and 1930s
Field collector: Maurice & Mireille Dunand
Notes: Unfortunately C does not supply any further information on the provenance of this inscription and, to the best of our knowledge, the area has not been revisited.
Associated Drawings: To the left of the inscription, a man sitting on a camel, his left hand holding a thong.

References:
[C] Ryckmans, G. Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum: Pars Quinta, Inscriptiones Saracenicae Continens: Tomus I, Fasciculus I, Inscriptiones Safaiticae. Paris: E Reipublicae Typographeo, 1950–1951.

[Dunand] Safaitic inscriptions copied by Maurice and Mireille Dunand in the basalt desert of southern Syria in the 1920s and 1930s and published in G. Ryckmans (ed.), Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum. Pars V. Inscriptiones Saracenicas continens, Tomus 1. Inscriptiones Safaiticae. (2 volumes). Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1950-1951.

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