Sigla: C 2405; Dunand 44 f  Script: Safaitic

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Transliteration
l dʾy bn zkk w qbl m- ġrb m- rhy f ---- grm w b- rʾy mlḥ

Translation
By Dʾy son of Zkk and he arrived from settled lands from Rhy and then ---- fled from his tribe and during the rising of Aquarius.

Apparatus Criticus
Macdonald MCA 1992: 6 n. 28: w qbl m- ġrb m-rhy "and he arrived from the settled lands from Rhy".
Al-Jallad in press, a: w qbl m- ġrb m- rhy f ---- grm w b- rʾy mlḥ: "and may he be safely reunited with those who were far away, for ... he was cut off [?] during the rising of Aquarius

Subjects
Genealogy

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:
Kurpershoek, P.M. Oral Poetry & Narratives from Central Arabia. V. Glossary, Indices, and List of Recordings. 5. (Studies in Arabic Literature, XVII/V). Leiden: Brill, 2005. Pages: 35

Macdonald, M.C.A. The Seasons and Transhumance in the Safaitic Inscriptions. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland 3rd. series, 2, 1992: 1-11. Pages: 6, n. 28

[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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