Sigla: C 4332; Vogüé 379  Script: Safaitic

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Transliteration
l m(ġ)yr bn ʾs¹ bn {z}bny bn ʾs¹ ḏ- ʾl gʿbr w mṭy s¹nt brḥ ʾqṣ h- mdnt h lt ġnmt m- s²nʾ ʾbl

Translation
By Mġyr son of ʾs¹ son of Zbny son of ʾs¹ of the lineage of Gʿbr and he was travelling quickly the year he departed [to] the the furthest part of the province O Lt, let there be camels as spoil from enemies.

Apparatus Criticus
C: l m(ġ)yr bn ʾs¹ bn zbny bn ʾs¹ ḏ- ʾl gʿbr w mṭy s¹nt brḥ ʾqṣ(y) mdnt h lt ġnmt m- s²nʾ ʾbl

Subjects
Genealogy

Country: Syria
Region: Al-Suwaydah
Site: On a cairn in al-Kraa (al-Qaraʾah) some two hours ride west of al-Kusayrah
Latitude: 32.93561
Longitude: 37.15839
Present Location: In situ
Find date: 1861, 1862
Field collector: de Vogüé
Notes: De Vogüé and Waddington's journey from al-Namārah to the village of Shaqqā on Ǧabal al-ʿArab took them through the area known as al-Kraa (al-Qaraʾah) which is bounded by the Dīrat al-Tulūl and the Ṣafā to the north and Wādī al-Gharz on the south and east. De Vogüé's map (1865) on which this cairn is marked "R" (for ruǧm) shows it to be west-south-west of al-Kusayrah. According to the measure of distance and time for travel on horseback in the ḥarrah given by Wetzstein (1860: map) which is the same as that given by Butler, viz: "an average of two and three-quarter miles [= 4.4 km] per hour for ordinary going..." (Butler, Norris & Stoever 1930: vii), a two hour journey on horseback would have taken de Vogüé and Waddington approximately 8.8 km west of al-Kusayrah, but of course we do not know whether they were going due west or north- or south-west.

References:
Butler, H.C., Norris, F.A., Stoever, E.R. Geography and Itinerary. Syria: Publications of the Princeton University, Archaeological Expeditions to Syria in 1904-1905 (Division I, Section A: by E.R. Stoever from the notes and journal of F.A. Norris) and 1909 (Division I, Section B: by H.C. Butler). Leiden: Brill, 1930.

de Vogüé, M. Syrie Centrale. Architecture civile et religieuse du 1er au VIIe siècle. (2 tomes). Tome première: Texte, planches 1–58. Tome seconde: Planches suite. Paris: Noblet & Baudry, 1865.

[Vogüé] de Vogüé, M. Syrie Centrale. Inscriptions sémitiques. Paris: Baudry, 1868-1877.

[C] Ryckmans, G. Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum: Pars Quinta, Inscriptiones Saracenicae Continens: Tomus I, Fasciculus I, Inscriptiones Safaiticae. Paris: E Reipublicae Typographeo, 1950–1951.

Wetzstein, J.G. Reisebericht über Hauran und die Trachonen nebst einem Anhange über die sabäischen Denkmäler in Ostsyrien. Berlin: Reimer, 1860.

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