LP 1302

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: LP 1302: ḥnnʾl mm mngʿ w mẓll "Ḥnnʾl — Mm longing and overshadowed [by grief]"
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. Note that LP 1302 and 1302.1 are not a Greek-Safaitic bilingual, as has been suggested, since the two texts say different things. See Macdonald 2009, I: 347 and n. 282 and 2009, VII: 115 n. 89.

Bell, F. The letters of Gertrude Bell, selected and edited by Lady Bell. (2 volumes). London: Benn, 1927
Bell, G.L. The Desert and the Sown. London: Heinemann, 1907
[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.
Macdonald, M.C.A. Literacy and Identity in Pre-Islamic Arabia. (Variorum Collected Studies, 906). Farnham: Ashgate, 2009.

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