LP 1300

Siglum: LP 1300
Alternative Sigla: C 5199
Transliteration: l bḫl(h) (b)(n) ẓn bn ʾnʿm bn (r)wḥ bn bḫlh w wgd s¹fr dd -h f b(k)y w ʾll f bʾs¹ m ẓll
Translation: By {Bḫlh} {son of} Ẓn son of ʾnʿm son of {Rwḥ} son of Bḫlh and he found the inscription of his uncle, and he wept and moaned and so for those who remain despair

Interpretation

Commentary: Gertrude Bell describes her finding this text and LP 1299, 1301–1302.1 on 23rd March 1905 in "a mass of rock all covered with inscriptions, Nabathaean, Greek, Kufic, and one in a [l]abel [that is a cartouche] which I did not know, but it was very like the oldest script of Yemen Sabaean." (Bell F 1927: 196). See also Bell GL 1907: 122–123, where an incomplete translation of this inscription is given. The final phrase only was published as C 5199. For the translation of bʾs¹ m ẓll see Al-Jallad 2015: 9.

Provenance: Gertrude Bell apparently copied LP 1299–1302.1 together with an unpublished (?) Nabataean text in the area of al-Khirbat al-bayḍā but unfortunately does not give any more exact provenance.

Associated Inscriptions

Ryckmans, G. Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum: Pars Quinta, Inscriptiones Saracenicae Continens: Tomus I, Fasciculus I, Inscriptiones Safaiticae. Paris: E Reipublicae Typographeo, 1950–1951.
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.
Al-Jallad, A.M. An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions. (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 80). Leiden: Brill, 2015.
Bell, G.L. The Desert and the Sown. London: Heinemann, 1907
Bell, F. The letters of Gertrude Bell, selected and edited by Lady Bell. (2 volumes). London: Benn, 1927