LP 327
Text Information
- Siglum
- LP 327
- Alternative Sigla
- Is.Mu 149
- Transliteration
- l ḏff bn ʾws¹ʾl bn s¹tr bn s¹mkʾl h- ḫṭṭ
- Translation
- By Ḏff son of ʾws¹ʾl son of S¹tr son of S¹mkʾl is the carving
Interpretation
- Commentary
- The inscription is carved around the drawing.
- Provenance
- Al-ʿĪsāwī is the name of a probably ancient well between two headlands on the eastern side of the Wādī Shām as it runs northwards from the modern Al-Namārah dam to the Ruḥbah. The well is large, stone lined and with stone water-channels running from it. The main concentration of published inscriptions is on the top of the northern headland, but there also many inscriptions on its south-west slopes, coming down to the well and on the southern headland, on the crest of which is a stone tower. Littmann visited the site twice when he and other members of the expeditions copied some 450 inscriptions. Between 1996 and 2003, the Safaitic Epigraphic Survey Programme [SESP] made a comprehensive survey of the site recording over 3500 inscriptions.
- Associated Drawings
- A man driving two camels
- 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.
- Inscriptions recorded at al-ʿĪsāwī by Muna Al-Muʾazzin, on the Safaitic Epigraphic Survey Programme, 1995–2002, and published here.
- Site
- Al-ʿĪsāwī, Rif Dimašq Governorate, Syria
- Date Found
- 1904–1905, 1996–2003
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Drawing of a domestic animal, Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0008911
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