Sigla: C 527; Wetzstein 125; Vogüé 203; Dussaud V 133  Script: Safaitic

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Transliteration
l mfny bn ms²ʿr h- nṣb f yṯʿ flṭ mn- s¹qm

Translation
The cult-stone was set up by Mfny son of Ms²ʿr, so, O Yṯʿ, let there be deliverance from illness.

Apparatus Criticus
C: [O] Yṯʿ [grant] refuge from distress

Subjects
Genealogy

Country: Syria
Region: Rif Dimashq
Site: The debouchment of Wādī Gharz into the Ruḥbah
Site number: 60
Latitude: 32.9565
Longitude: 37.2773
Present Location: In situ
Find date: 1858, 1861, 1862, 1899
Field collector: Wetzstein, de Vogüé, Dussaud & Macler
Notes: Apparently both banks of Wādī al-Gharz. Between the point where the wadi is crossed by the Zalaf—Khirbat al-Umbāshī track and its debouchment into the Ruḥbah, the inscriptions are in a series of outcrops and cairns and on the rocks of the wadi bank. The greatest concentration of texts copied in the 19th century is in the last outcrop and cairn overlooking the Ruḥbah (where there are approximately 80–120 texts). Note that several texts in the group C 4872–4936, which C places on the "right bank" of Wādī al-Gharz, were actually found on the left bank, and that C 4712–4723 which C places on the left bank were actually found on the right bank. There are many more inscriptions on the left bank than on the right.

References:
[Vogüé] de Vogüé, M. Syrie Centrale. Inscriptions sémitiques. Paris: Baudry, 1868-1877.

[Dussaud V] Dussaud, R. & Macler, F. Voyage archéologique au Ṣafâ et dans le Djebel ed-Drûz. Paris: Leroux, 1901.

[Wetzstein] Grimme, H. Texte und Untersuchungen zur ṣafatenisch-arabischen Religion. Mit einer Einführung in die ṣafatenische Epigraphik. (Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des Altertums, 16/01/2012). [Reprint, 1970, Johnson, New York]. Paderborn: Schöningh, 1929.

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

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