Sigla: C 2403; Dunand 44 d  Script: Safaitic

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Transliteration
l ʾl{h}t bn ḏʾb bn kn bn nʿmn (w) {n}gʿ [ʿ]l- {ḥ}ml w mʿḏ m- s¹wm {w} nqm (m) {ḏ} ḥwr w w(g)(d) ʾṯr (m)q{d} w w(g)d (ʾ)(ṯ)r mḍʿf f h lt ġyrt s¹nt ws¹q qm{ṣ}n

Translation
By {ʾlht} son of Ḏʾb son of Kn son of Nʿmn {and} {he grieved in pain} {for} {Ḥml} and Mʿḏ on account of [their] death {and} he took revenge {on} {him who} returned and {he found} traces of {Mqd} and {he found} {traces} of Mdʿf and so O Lt [grant] blood money the year of the struggle of {Qmṣn}

Subjects
Genealogy Grieving Revenge Finding inscription(s) Prayer Deity Date (s1nt)

Country: Syria
Region: Rif Dimashq
Site: Zalaf (j) "In the neighbourhood of Zalaf, near Wādī al-Shām " (C p. 304).
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.

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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