LP 404
Text Information
- Siglum
- LP 404
- Alternative Sigla
- Is.Mu 172
- Transliteration
-
l ʿwḏ bn ṣʿd bn lʿṯmn f h lt s¹lm m- bʾs¹
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- Translation
-
By ʿwḏ son of Ṣʿd son of Lʿṯmn. So, Lt may [grant] security from despair
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- Language and Script
- Safaitic
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- LP did not copy the ḏ of the first name and so read ʿw for ʿwḏ.
- Commentary
- Chiselled in small neat letters down the left side of the figure and curving round below her feet. Note the difference in shape between the s¹ in s¹lm and that in bʾs¹.
- Associated Inscriptions
- LP 403 (= Is.Mu 171)
- [Is.Mu] Inscriptions recorded at al-ʿĪsāwī by Muna Al-Muʾazzin, on the Safaitic Epigraphic Survey Programme, 1995–2002, and published here.
- [LP] 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.
- [MISS] Macdonald, M.C.A., Al Muʾazzin, M. & Nehmé, L. Les inscriptions safaïtiques de Syrie, cent quarante ans après leur découverte. Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions & Belles-Lettres 1996: 435-494.
- Site
- Al-ʿĪsāwī, Rif Dimašq Governorate, Syria
- Date Found
- 1904–1905
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Deity, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0008988
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Updated
16 Sep, 2024
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OCIANA,. 'LP 404.' OCIANA. 16 Sep, 2024. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/2608. Accessed: 06 Oct, 2025.