Sigla: C 3221; Dunand 875  Script: Safaitic

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Transliteration
l s²ʿ bn ḥm b[n] {ʾ}tb h- ẓlt [w] {n}qm(t) m ẓlm -h w ḥyw mn- ḍf w wrd h- nḫl w nyk

Translation
By S²ʿ son of Ḥm {son of} {ʾtb} is this shelter {and} {vengeance} on whoever harms him and life from Ḍf and he watered in the valley and had sex

Apparatus Criticus
C: w ny f---- "and he migrated and so ----" for w nyk "and he had sex"

Subjects
Genealogy Structure Revenge Group (in the narrative) Watering Topographic features Sexual references

Country: Syria
Region: Rif Dimashq
Site: Zalaf (m) "On the left bank of Wādī al-Shām, not far from Zalaf from the south to the west" (C p. 410).
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. It is not clear what C's description means.
Associated Inscriptions: C 3222

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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