Sigla: C 4410+4409; Dussaud M 518, 519; LP 894; Mr.A 5 Script: Safaitic
- Transliteration
l ʿṭs¹ bn tm bn ʾṣḫr bn ʿṭs¹ bn ʾs¹ḫr w ḏbḥ l- bʿls¹mn
Translation
By ʿṭs¹ son of Tm son of ʾṣḫr son of ʿṭs¹ son of ʾs¹ḫr and he sacrificed to Bʿls¹mn
Apparatus Criticus
C 4410: l ʿṭs¹ bn tm bn ʾs¹ḫ[r]
C 4409: ---- bn ʿṭs¹ bn ʾs¹ḫr [w] ḏbḥ l- bʿls¹mn
Commentary
The photograph shows that this is a single inscription.
Subjects
Genealogy
Religion
Deity
Country: Syria
Region: Al-Suwaydah
Site: Al-Mrōshan
Latitude: 32.844275
Longitude: 37.19575
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), repeated by C, this inscription was found between al-Namārah and Ghadīr al-Darb, but Littmann is more specific saying that it comes from Al-Mrōshan (1904: 156). This consists of four long, low mounds, running roughly east-west in a flat area where the Wādī al-Gharz spreads out. These mounds create a series of "gorges" perhaps 3 m high in the wadi which is otherwise very flat and at this point hardly distinguishable from the surrounding area, the "wadi-bed" consisting of several channels approximately 30–80 cm deep and 4–10 m wide. The southerly three mounds are covered with graves and enclosures. Much of the rock is not suitable for inscribing. It was visited in 1995 by the Safaitic Epigraphic Survey Programme and all the published texts it rediscovered came from the most northerly of the southern three mounds, and most were concentrated at its eastern end.
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. Number: 518, 519
[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. Number: 894
[C] Ryckmans, G. Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum: Pars Quinta, Inscriptiones Saracenicae Continens: Tomus I, Fasciculus I, Inscriptiones Safaiticae. Paris: E Reipublicae Typographeo, 1950–1951.
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