LP 329

Siglum: LP 329
Alternative Sigla: Is.Mu 141
Transliteration: l rbʾl b{n} ʾnhk h- ḫṭṭ w ʾy ʾlt nqʾt l- ḏ yʿwr h- {s¹}{f}[r]
Translation: By Rbʾl {son of} ʾnhk is the carving. And O ʾlt [inflict] ejection from the grave on whoever scratches out the {writing}

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: LP 329: yʿwr -h for yʿwr h- {s¹}{f}[r]
Commentary: The vocative particle ʾy is unusual. The h- of h- {s¹}{f}[r] can be seen between the chest of the horse and the horns of the oryx and the word itself is under a damaged area in front of and above the horse's head.

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.

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.

Date Found: 1904–1905, 1996–2003
Current Location: In situ
Subjects: Curse, Deity, Drawing of a domestic animal, Drawing of a wild animal, Genealogy
Script: Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID: #0008913
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