LP 413

Siglum: LP 413
Alternative Sigla: LP 1025; Is.Mu 111
Transliteration: l s²dḫ bn ġṯ bn ʿbd bn ġṯ w wgd ʾṯr ʾḫ -hm
Translation: By S²dḫ son of Ġṯ son of ʿbd son of Ġṯ and he found the traces of their brother

Interpretation

Commentary: This text was also copied by one of the "servants of the Princeton University Archaeological Expedition" and published as LP 1025.

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.