Sigla: C 4650; Dussaud M 735  Script: Safaitic

Transliteration
l s²mt bn mrwn w ʾs²rq f h bʿls¹mn s¹lm

Translation
By S²mt son of Mrwn and he migrated to the inner desert and O Bʿls¹mn [grant] security

Subjects
Genealogy

Country: Syria
Region: Al-Suwaydah
Site: Ghadīr al-Darb
Latitude: 32.8333
Longitude: 37.0667
Present Location: In situ
Find date: 1901
Field collector: Dussaud & Macler
Notes: Dussaud & Macler describe Ghadīr al-Darb as "a muddy pool of water" in Wādī al-Gharz (1903: 27 [429]). The co-ordinates given above are those provided by Geonames, but this places it some 220 m north of the left bank of the wadi, so they should be taken as approximate.

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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