Sigla: C 2947; Dunand 741 Script: Safaitic
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-Transliteration
l {s²}krʾ bn rmyn bn mġṯ ḏ- ʾl ʿmrt <> w ndm ʿl- ʾḫ -h mlṯ mqtl b- hld f h lt w ds²r nqmt mn- mn mṣr -h
Translation
By {S²krʾ} son of Rmyn son of Mġṯ of the lineage of ʿmrt and he was devastated by grief on account of his brother Mṯl who was killed near Hld, so, O Lt and Ds²r, let there be vengeance against whoever has taken him away(?).
Apparatus Criticus
C: b- h- ld for b- hld
Commentary
There is a strange shape between ʿmrt and w ndm which does not seem to be part of the text.
Subjects
Genealogy
Lineage
Grieving
Relatives
Place-name
Prayer
Deity
Vengeance
Country: Syria
Region: Rif Dimashq
Site: Zalaf (k) "On the left bank of Wādī al-Shām, about 3 km upstream towards Zalaf" (C p. 381).
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. C's description of the location the present inscription is useless since it does not give the starting point from which the site is "3 km upstream towards Zalaf".
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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