LP 233

Siglum: LP 233
Transliteration: l mġyr bn ʿḏ bn ʿḏ bn ġṯ bn (ḫ)dm bn s¹r bn ṣb[ḥ] bn qdm bn s¹b[ʿ][ʾ]l w wgm ʿl- ʾḫ -h qtl f h lt ṯ[ʾ]r m- [s²]nʾ w ḫrṣ ʾḫw -h f h lt qbln w ʿwr l- ḏ yʿwr -h
Translation: By Mġyr son of ʿḏ son of ʿḏ son of Ġṯ son of Wdm son of S¹r son of Ṣbḥ son of Qdm son of S¹bʿʾl and he grieved for his brother who was killed. So, O Lt [grant] blood-revenge [to be taken] on the enemy and he was looking out for his two brothers. So, O Lt [send] squinting and blindness on him who effaces it

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: LP: wdm for ḫdm.
Commentary: The photograph of the same genealogy in Mr.A 10 shows that the fifth name is ḫdm not wdm as in LP's copy.

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.