LP 333

Siglum: LP 333
Alternative Sigla: Is.Mu 191
Transliteration: l ʿḏ bn ġṯ bn wdm bn s¹r h- gml w h lt nqʾt l- ḏ yʿwr
Translation: By ʿḏ son of Ġṯ son of Wdm son of S¹r is the male camel and O Lt [inflict] ejection from the grave on whoever scratches out [the inscription]

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: LP 333 read the first name as ʿḏy, but the "y" is in fact the head and neck of the camel-rider. He read the third name as wdʾl but the strokes he took as " ʾl " are in fact the front legs of the camel.
Commentary: The text is carved around a drawing of a man on a camel which has been badly hammered over.

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.