Siglum: CSNS 1  Script: Safaitic

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Transliteration
l ġyrʾl bn ʾnʿm bn rfʾt ḏ- ʾl ḥẓy w wqʿ w ẓll ʿl- ḥr f mnʿt w ẓllt ḍʾn -h ḥbs¹t ʾl s¹lm

Translation
By Ġyrʾl son of ʾnʿm son of Rfʾt of the lineage of Ḥẓy and he wrote [this] and sheltered (here) against the heat and his sheep were enclosed and restrained in the sheepfold of the lineage group of S¹lm

Commentary
See Macdonald 1992: 6, n. 26 on wqʿ.
See Macdonald 1993: 319, n. 113 on some members of the ʾl ḥẓy writing about their sheep and others about their camels.

Subjects
Genealogy Domestic animals Lineage Structure Weather Group (in the narrative)

Country: Jordan
Site: A
Site number: 0
Map reference: 3354 II 034582
Latitude: 32.135445
Longitude: 36.981444
Present Location: In situ
Field collector: Vincent Clark
Notes: West-south-west of H5, 5km to the northeast of Jebel al-ʾAsfar (CSNS, Pp. 164)
Associated Remains: None

References:
[CSNS] Clark, V.A. A Study of New Safaitic Inscriptions from Jordan. Thesis presented for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Melbourne. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, 1979 [1983].

Macdonald, M.C.A. Nomads and the Ḥawrān in the late Hellenistic and Roman periods: A reassessment of the epigraphic evidence. Syria 70, 1993: 303-413. [Reprinted with the same pagination, plus addenda and corrigenda as Article II in M.C.A. Macdonald, Literacy and Identity in Pre-Islamic Arabia, (Variorum Collected Studies Series no. 906), Farnham: Ashgate, 2009].

Macdonald, M.C.A. The Seasons and Transhumance in the Safaitic Inscriptions. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland 3rd. series, 2, 1992: 1-11.

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