LP 391

Siglum: LP 391
Alternative Sigla: Is.Mu 147
Transliteration: l s²mt bn ʿbd bn ġṯ {w} wgd ʾṯr kmd f ngʿ kbr w ʿl- qdm w ʿl- kmd {w} ʿl- ṣʿd f h lt s¹lm l- ḏ s¹ʾr w ʿwr l- ḏ yʿwr
Translation: By S²mt son of ʿbd son of Ġṯ {and} he found the inscription of Kmd and so he grieved greatly [for him] and for Qdm and for Kmd and for Ṣʿd and so O Lt [grant] security to whoever leaves [the inscription] untouched and blindness to whoever scratches out [the inscription]

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: LP 391: f ngʿ kbr w [wgm] ʿl for f ngʿ kbr w ʿl
Commentary: Littmann says that LP 391 is on the same stone as LP 386–390, but it is on a separate stone. The last two letters are on an adjacent face and are not visible on any of the photographs. However, they occur in Littmann's and the SESP copies.

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; 1996–2002
Current Location: In situ
Subjects: Curse, Deity, Finding inscription(s), Genealogy, Grieving, Isolated Prayer
Script: Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID: #0008975
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