LP 183

Siglum: LP 183
Transliteration: l mlk bn s¹ʿd bn ḥnʾl bn ngy w (ḥ)ll (h-) dr w wgd s¹fr mʿr ḏ ʿwq
Translation: By Mlk son of S¹ʿd son of Ḥnʾl son of Ngy and {he camped} {here} and he found the inscription of Mʿr who was imprisoned.

Interpretation

Provenance: Al-Mrōshan consists of four long, low mounds, running roughly east-west in a flat area where the Wādī al-Gharz spreads out. These mounds create a series of "gorges" perhaps 3 m high in the Wādī which is otherwise very flat and at this point hardly distinguishable from the surrounding area, the "Wādī-bed" consisting of several channels approximately 30–80 cm deep and 4–10 m wide. The southerly three mounds are covered with graves and enclosures. Much of the rock is not suitable for inscribing. It was visited in 1995 by the Safaitic Epigraphic Survey Programme and all the published texts it rediscovered came from the most northerly of the southern three mounds, and most were concentrated at its eastern end.

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.