Sigla: C 4438; Dussaud M 546  Script: Safaitic

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Transliteration
l ʾm bn ġṭfn bn ʾḏnt( )( )( ) ḏ- ʾl ʿwḏ w mrd mn- ʾl hrm f h lt s¹lm

Translation
By ʾm son of Ġṭfn son of ʾḏnt of the lineage of ʿwḏ and he rebelled against the lineage of Hrm and so O Lt [grant] security

Apparatus Criticus
C: l ʾ[n][ʿ]m for l ʾm.

Subjects
Genealogy Group (in the narrative) Outside peoples Prayer Deity

Country: Syria
Region: Al-Suwaydah
Site: Between Al-Namārah and Ghadīr al-Darb
Present Location: In situ
Find date: 1901
Field collector: Dussaud & Macler
Notes: Dussaud & Macler, followed by C, give the provenance of this inscription simply as "between al-Namārah and Ghadīr al-Darb" (1903: 151 [553]) and describe Ghadīr al-Darb as "a muddy pool of water" in Wādī al-Gharz (1903: 27 [429]). According to Geonames its co-ordinates are Latitude 32.8333, Longitude 37.0667, but this places it some 220 m north of the left bank of the wadi. In addition, several of the texts to which Dussaud & Macler give this vague provenance were also copied by Littmann and members of the the Princeton (1904–1905) expeditions, and he locates them at al-Mrōshan. However, for the inscriptions, such as this, which were copied only by Dussaud & Macler, it is impossible to give a more precise provenance.

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: 546

Macdonald, M.C.A. Literacy and Identity in Pre-Islamic Arabia. (Variorum Collected Studies, 906). Farnham: Ashgate, 2009. Pages: II, 331–333

[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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