Sigla: C 4454; Dussaud M 560  Script: Safaitic

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Transliteration
l ḥml bn ns²bt w ṣbb b- ks¹ʾ {g}ml

Translation
By Ḥml son of Ns²bt and he made a libation during the cosmical setting [or full moon] of {Gemini}

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:
Al-Jallad, A.M An Ancient Arabian Zodiac. The Constellations in the Safaitic Inscriptions. Part II. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 27, 2016: 84–106.

[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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