Sigla: C 4973; Dunand 959  Script: Safaitic

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Transliteration
l ʿmd bn ms¹k bn ʿmd bn mlk w wld h- mʿz (w) rʿy -h bql b- ḏkr

Translation
By ʿmd son of Ms¹k son of ʿmd son of Mlk and he helped the goats to give birth {and} pastured them on spring herbage when the sun was in Aries.

Apparatus Criticus
C: l ʿmd bn ms¹k bn ʿmd bn mlk w wld h- mʿz w rʿy -h b- ql b- ḏkr

Subjects
Genealogy

Country: Syria
Region: Al-Suwaydah or Rif Dimashq
Site: on the right bank of Wādī al-Gharz, near the track from Ǧabal al-Drūz to al-Namāra
Present Location: In situ
Find date: 1920s and 1930s
Field collector: Maurice & Mireille Dunand
Notes: Unfortunately, there is no way of knowing where on the right bank of Wādī al-Gharz these inscriptions were found.

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. Pages: 99

[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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