Sigla: C 4360; Dussaud M 471; LP 925  Script: Safaitic

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Transliteration
l s²dd bn mlkt bn ḫṭs¹t bn flṭt bn ẓf w ḏbḥ l- bʿ{l}s¹mn f wqyt

Translation
By S²dd son of Mlkt son of Ḫṭs¹t son of Flṭt son of Ẓf and he sacrificed to {Bʿls¹mn} so protection

Apparatus Criticus
C:f(l)ṭt bn b(h)s² for flṭt bn ẓf.

Commentary
The reading here is based on the LP 925 copy which, though a mirror-image of Dussaud M 471, clearly represents the same inscription.

Subjects
Genealogy Religion Deity Prayer

Country: Syria
Region: Al-Suwaydah
Site: Al-Namārah area
Site number: 38
Latitude: 32.88545
Longitude: 37.29163
Present Location: In situ
Find date: 1901, 1904–1905
Field collector: Dussaud & Macler, "Servants of the Princeton University Arachaeological Expedition" (Littmann 1943: iii)
Survey: The Princeton University Archaeological Expeditions to Syria
Notes: According to Dussaud & Macler (1903: 151), this inscription was found between al-Namārah and Ghadīr al-Darb, but according to Littmann (1943: 220) it comes from Al-Namārah. Al-Namārah itself is an "island" in a basin at the confluence of the Wādī al-Ṣawṭ and the Wādī al-Shām. The island rises to a considerable height above the wadi bed. On it's top are the ruins of a Roman fort the outlines of which, and the square north-east and south-west towers, can still be made out. However, much of the masonry has been reused to build a mediaeval mausoleum, including a lintel with an unfinished Greek inscription mentioning Marcus Aurelius (Waddington 1870: no. 2264) and stone doors. There are many Safaitic, Greek and two Latin graffiti on the slopes of the island and the banks of the wadi. In antiquity, there were small dams, cisterns, wells and diversion channels to trap the water and to lead it to nearby fields, see Macdonald 2009.

References:
[Dussaud M] Dussaud, R. & Macler, F. Mission dans les régions désertiques de la Syrie moyenne. Extrait des /Nouvelles Archives des Missions Scientifiques/, t. X [p. 405-744, ps. 1-31 ]. Paris: Imprimerie nationale / Leroux, 1903.

[LP] Littmann, E. Safaïtic Inscriptions. Syria. Publications of the Princeton University Archaeological Expeditions to Syria in 1904–1905 and 1909. Division IV. Section C. Leiden: Brill, 1943.

Macdonald, M.C.A. Transformation and continuity at al-Namarā: Camps, settlements, forts, and tombs. Pages 317-332 in K. Bartl & ʿA. Moaz (eds), Residences, Castles, Settlements. Transformation Processes from Late Antiquity to Early Islam in Bilad al-Sham. Proceedings of the International Conference held at Damascus, 5–9 November 2006. (Orient-Archäologie, 24). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 2008.

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

Waddington, W.H. Inscriptions grecques et latines de la Syrie recueillies et expliquées. Paris: Firmin Didot, 1870.

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