Siglum: LP 684  Script: Safaitic

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Transliteration
l ṣʾr bn tm bn khl w dmy wṣl ḏ h- ṣwy f [h] lt w gdʿwḏ nqʾt b- wdd (l-) ḏ yḫb(l) h- ḫṭṭ

Translation
By Ṣʾr son of Tm son of Khl and he drew (an image), having arrived at this cairn, so, [O] Lt and Gdʿwḏ, may he who would {obscure} this writing be thrown out of the grave by a loved one

Subjects
Genealogy

Country: Syria
Region: Al-Suweidah
Site: "On the road from Qabr Nāṣir to Ṣanayim al-Gharz, not far from east from Ghadīr al-Darb" (Littmann 1943: 170)
Latitude: 32.8333
Longitude: 37.0667
Present Location: In situ
Find date: 1904–1905
Field collector: Littmann
Survey: The Princeton University Archaeological Expeditions to Syria
Notes: Unfortunately, the Safaitic Epigraphic Survey Programme was unable to locate the sites of Qabr Nāṣir and Ṣanayim al-Gharz and they do not appear in Geonames. 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:
[LP] Littmann, E. Safaïtic Inscriptions. Syria. Publications of the Princeton University Archaeological Expeditions to Syria in 1904–1905 and 1909. Division IV. Section C. Leiden: Brill, 1943.

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