LP 964

Siglum: LP 964
Transliteration: l ʾys¹ bn mrṣʿ bn ʾys¹ bn ġyrʾ(l) b[n] s²ʿ bn wrd <<>> bn s¹mdn bn mḫ bn bnd bn s¹mk
Translation: By ʾys¹ son of Mrṣʿ son of ʾys¹ son of {Ġyrʾl} {son of} S²ʿ son of Wrd son of S¹mdn son of Mḫ son of Bnd son of S¹mk

Interpretation

Commentary: This was one of the inscriptions at al-ʿĪsāwī which was not rediscovered by the Safaitic Epigraphic Survey Programme.

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.