Sigla: C 4854; Dunand 1086 a  Script: Safaitic

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Transliteration
l wrd bn khl bn ʿm w ṣy(r) {h-} mʾ

Translation
By Wrd son of Khl son of ʿm and {he returned to} {the} water

Commentary
The word mʾ here corresponds with Classical Arabic māʾ whereas the word for water in Safaitic is usually my corresponding to the Lebanese Arabic mayy (see Al-Jallad 2015: 329).

Subjects
Genealogy Movement Watering

Country: Syria
Region: Al-Suwaydah or Rif Dimashq
Site: On the right bank of Wādī al-Gharz, near the track leading from Damascus to Zalaf (C p. 593)
Present Location: In situ
Find date: 1920s and 1930s
Field collector: Maurice & Mireille Dunand
Notes: Unfortunately, there is no way of knowing where this bridge is.

References:
Al-Jallad, A.M. An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions. (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 80). Leiden: Brill, 2015. Pages: 329

[C] Ryckmans, G. Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum: Pars Quinta, Inscriptiones Saracenicae Continens: Tomus I, Fasciculus I, Inscriptiones Safaiticae. Paris: E Reipublicae Typographeo, 1950–1951.

[Dunand] Safaitic inscriptions copied by Maurice and Mireille Dunand in the basalt desert of southern Syria in the 1920s and 1930s and published in G. Ryckmans (ed.), Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum. Pars V. Inscriptiones Saracenicas continens, Tomus 1. Inscriptiones Safaiticae. (2 volumes). Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1950-1951.

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