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LP 1040

Siglum
LP 1040
Alternative Sigla
Is.L 33
Transliteration
l s¹krn bn ḥmlg bn ʿḏ bn s¹wr bn nqm h- gml
Translation
By S¹krn son of Ḥmlg son of ʿḏ son of S¹wr son of Nqm [is] the male camel

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
LP 1040: The copy is by one of the "servants of the Princeton University Archaeological Expedition" (Littmann 1943: iii). Only the first three names were copied.
Commentary
The inscription is carved on two faces of the stone and around two sides of the drawings.

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.

Associated Drawings
A very detailed drawing of a camel rider, apparently using the šadād saddle, a shield in his hand, two swords [?] behind the saddle and a water bag behind them. In front of him is a simple outline of another camel.
Associated 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.
  • 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.
  • Inscriptions recorded at al-ʿĪsāwī by Laïla Nehmé, on the Safaitic Epigraphic Survey Programme, 1995–1996, and published here.
Site
Al-ʿĪsāwī, Rif Dimašq Governorate, Syria
Date Found
1904–1905
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Drawing of a domestic animal, Genealogy
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0009624
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