LP 1097

Siglum: LP 1097
Alternative Sigla: Is.B 1; Is.H 730; MISS G pp. 469, 473-476
Transliteration: l yġḍr bn rṯ bn tkn bn gmn bn kmn bn ʿmrt w h dṯn s¹ʿd rṯ bn tkn w rs¹ʾs¹h w h dṯn s¹ʿd yġḍr bn tkn
Translation: By Yġḍr son of Rṯ son of Tkn son of Gmn son of Kmn son of ʿmrt and O Dṯn help Rṯ son of Tkn and rs¹ʾs¹h and O Dṯn help Yġḍr son of Tkn

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: LP 1097: l yrḍ(y) bn z(d) b(n) kn bn gml bn km(l) bn ʿmrt w h r(ḍ)(y) s¹ʿd rṯ bn ḫrn w brʾ b(n) mlk ʾb s¹ʿr "By {Yrḍy} son of {Zd} {son of}. Kn son of Gml son of {Kml} son of ʿĀmirat and O {Rḍy}, help Rṯ son of Ḫrn and Brʾ {son of} Mlk ʾAbū Sʿr"
Commentary: See the commentary in Macdonald, Al Muʾazzin, & Nehmé 1996: 473-476. The stone was rediscovered and photographed by the Safaitic Epigraphic Survey Programme in 1995 and the reading here is made from those photographs. It should be noted that Littmann was working from a hand copy made by one of the servants of the Princeton Expedition (LP p. iii), and had not seen the original. The letters rs¹ʾs¹h which can just be made out on the colour photograph are clear on the copy are difficult to interpret.

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.
Original Reading Credit: MISS p. 473
Original Translation Credit: MISS p. 473

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 by the Safaitic Epigraphic Survey Programme, 1995, at al-ʿĪsāwī, on the south-western slopes of the promontory north of the well, and published here.
Inscriptions recorded at al-ʿĪsāwī by Hussein Zeinaddin, on the Safaitic Epigraphic Survey Programme, 1995–2002, and published here.