Sigla: C 4443; Dussaud M 550 a  Script: Safaitic

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Transliteration
l s²mt bn lʿṯmn bn s²mt bn s²rk bn ʾnʿm bn lʿṯmn w wgm ʿl- ʾm -h w ʿl- dd -h w ʿl- ḫl -h w ʿl- ʿm w ʿl- ʾnʿm qtl -h {ʾ}l ṣbḥ f wlh ʿl- bn ḫl -h trḥ w rʿy h- ḍʾn w rḥḍ b- ṯbr w ḫl -h s²[n]ʾ f h lt s¹lm w wgd ʾṯr ʾḫ -h f ndm

Translation
By S²mt son of Lʿṯmn son of S²mt son of S²rk son of ʾnʿm son of Lʿṯmn and he grieved for his mother and for his paternal uncle and for his maternal uncle and for ʿm and for ʾnʿm whom {the lineage} of Ṣbḥ killed, then he was distraught over the son of his maternal uncle, who had perished; and he pastured the sheep, washed during Sagittarius, and kept watch against enemies, so, O Lt, may he be secure; and he found the inscription of his brother, so he was devastated by grief.

Apparatus Criticus
C: l s²mt bn lʿṯmn bn s²mt bn s²rk bn ʾnʿm bn lʿṯmn w wgm ʿl- ʾm -h w ʿl- dd -h w ʿl- ḫl -h w ʿl- ʿm w ʿl- ʾnʿm qtl -h ḫl ṣbḥ f wlh ʿl- bn ḫl -h trḥ w rʿy h- ḍʾn w rḥḍ b- ṯbr w ḫl -h s²[n]ʾ f h lt s¹lm w wgd ʾṯr ʾḫ -h f ndm

Subjects
Genealogy

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.

[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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