Is.L 67
Text Information
- Siglum
- Is.L 67
- Transliteration
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l grmʾl bn ḏʾb bn kn w ws¹q -h h- s¹l b- rʾ {{h-}} gml s¹nt ws¹q ʾl qdm ʾl hrm f h lt s¹lm
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- Translation
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By Grmʾl son of Ḏʾb son of Kn and the flash-flood drove him away during the acronical rising of Gemini at the year the ʾl Qdm contended with the ʾl Hrm and so O Lt [grant] security
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- Language and Script
- Safaitic
Interpretation
- Commentary
- Area A. It seems that the author initially wrote a b or a r instead of a y in b- rʾy and then made a loop out of the angle of the of the b/r. The n and the t of s¹nt have been scratched over and rewritten (by the author?) just below the two letters. h- s¹l might be equivalent to Ar. sill = “tuberculosis”.? However in view of the interpretation of b- rʾy gml Littmann's interpretation from Ar. sayl = “flash-flood” is more appropriate. The phrase b- rʾy gml also occurs at the end of SIJ 827 (not read by SIJ but visible on the photograph) in the sentence w ṣyr m- mdbr b- rʾy gml. Littmann's suggestion that it was a place name meaning literally “a [not “the” as in LP p. 117] watering-place of camels” with rʾy being from the root rwy and meaning “watering place” is accepted faute de mieux. Indeed this would fit most of the other instances of rʾy as well. See also Photo Misc PH 20 for the part of the text from kn to b- rʾ.
- Editio Princeps
- Ed. pr.
- Technique
- Incised
- Direction of Script
- Boustrophedon (L)
- Associated Inscriptions
- L 68 (on the same face); 63-66; 69-73 (on other faces)
- [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.
- Site
- Al-ʿĪsāwī, Rif Dimašq Governorate, Syria
- Date Found
- 1996–2003
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0026470
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