LP 254

Siglum: LP 254
Transliteration: l ʿwḏ bn s¹ny bn bḫlh bn ẓnnʾl bn s¹r w ḥḍr s¹nt bʿy ʾl qmr ʾl ḥmy w wgm ʿl- ġṯ trḥ rġm mny
Translation: By ʿwḏ son of S¹ny son of Bḫlh son of Ẓnnʾl son of S¹r and he camped near a permanent source of water in the year in which the tribe of Qmr did injury to the tribe of Ḥmy and he grieved for Ġṯ who had perished struck down by Fate

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.