Sigla: C 1841; Dunand 481  Script: Safaitic

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Transliteration
l ms¹k bn ns²bt bn s¹ʿd bn rmmt w ḫrṣ {ṣ}y{r} f h lt w (y)ṯʿ s¹lm w ġnyt w ḫḍʿ nmġt ḏ yʿwr h- s¹fr

Translation
By Ms¹k son of Ns²bt son of S¹ʿd son of Rmmt and he was watchful {while travelling to permanent water} and so O Lt and {Yṯʿ} [grant] security and freedom from want and humble nmġt whoever may scratch out this inscription

Apparatus Criticus
C: ḫrṣ -h yn "Yn waited for him" for ḫrṣ {ṣ}y{r}; ḫḍʿ () m- {l}t "and may he be humiliated by Lt" for ḫḍʿ nmġt "humble nmġt"

Subjects
Genealogy

Country: Syria
Region: Rif Dimashq
Site: Zalaf (c) "To the south of Zalaf in a place near the larger khabrah [a depression in the plain where water gathers] or Khabrah kubrā [?]" (C p. 225).
Latitude: 32.9269
Longitude: 37.3296
Present Location: In situ
Find date: 1920s and 1930s
Field collector: Maurice & Mireille Dunand
Notes: Zalaf itself consists of three, or possibly more, wells and some trees, but the Dunands used its name to cover a large area surrounding the place itself. This is subdivided into areas to which we have given the names Zalaf (a) to Zalaf (m). C (p. 199), following the Dunands, says that Zalaf is about 10 km south of Riǧm Qaʿqūl, but in fact it is more like 5.5 km to the south-south-west. Since "Zalaf" is used in C of a wide area, and the descriptions of the sub-areas are often very vague, the co-ordinates given here are necessarily approximate. Unfortunately, it is impossible at this stage to identify the "place near the larger khabrah".

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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