Sigla: C 3051; Dunand 779 a  Script: Safaitic

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Transliteration
l rbḥ bn mlk [b][n] ʾys¹{r} (w) rḍw [w] l(h) by w ʿwr m ʿwr

Translation
By Rbḥ son of Mlk {son of} {ʾys¹r} {and} Rḍw {and} {Lh} by and blind whoever scratches out [the inscription]

Apparatus Criticus
C: mrḍw l- ʾby "favour to ʾby"

Subjects
Genealogy Deity Curse

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".
Associated Inscriptions: C 3051

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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