filename,copyright,inscription_siglum,provenance,editio_princeps,field_collector,reference_sigla,short_citations,transliteration,translation,commentary,commentary_author,site,ociana_link
im0048988.jpg,,Is.L 67,"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.",Ed. pr.,,LP,Littmann 1943,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,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,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.,,"Al-ʿĪsāwī, Rif Dimašq Governorate, Syria",https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/2971
im0048989.jpg,,Is.L 67,"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.",Ed. pr.,,LP,Littmann 1943,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,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,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.,,"Al-ʿĪsāwī, Rif Dimašq Governorate, Syria",https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/2971
im0048993.jpg,,Is.L 67,"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.",Ed. pr.,,LP,Littmann 1943,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,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,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.,,"Al-ʿĪsāwī, Rif Dimašq Governorate, Syria",https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/2971
im0049659.jpg,,Is.L 67,"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.",Ed. pr.,,LP,Littmann 1943,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,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,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.,,"Al-ʿĪsāwī, Rif Dimašq Governorate, Syria",https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/2971
im0049660.jpg,,Is.L 67,"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.",Ed. pr.,,LP,Littmann 1943,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,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,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.,,"Al-ʿĪsāwī, Rif Dimašq Governorate, Syria",https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/2971
im0049663.jpg,,Is.L 67,"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.",Ed. pr.,,LP,Littmann 1943,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,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,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.,,"Al-ʿĪsāwī, Rif Dimašq Governorate, Syria",https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/2971
im0066185.jpg,,Is.L 67,"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.",Ed. pr.,,LP,Littmann 1943,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,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,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.,,"Al-ʿĪsāwī, Rif Dimašq Governorate, Syria",https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/2971
im0066187.jpg,,Is.L 67,"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.",Ed. pr.,,LP,Littmann 1943,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,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,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.,,"Al-ʿĪsāwī, Rif Dimašq Governorate, Syria",https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/2971
im0066189.jpg,,Is.L 67,"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.",Ed. pr.,,LP,Littmann 1943,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,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,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.,,"Al-ʿĪsāwī, Rif Dimašq Governorate, Syria",https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/2971
im0066190.jpg,,Is.L 67,"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.",Ed. pr.,,LP,Littmann 1943,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,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,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.,,"Al-ʿĪsāwī, Rif Dimašq Governorate, Syria",https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/2971
im0066194.jpg,,Is.L 67,"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.",Ed. pr.,,LP,Littmann 1943,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,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,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.,,"Al-ʿĪsāwī, Rif Dimašq Governorate, Syria",https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/2971
im0066997.jpg,,Is.L 67,"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.",Ed. pr.,,LP,Littmann 1943,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,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,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.,,"Al-ʿĪsāwī, Rif Dimašq Governorate, Syria",https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/2971
im0066998.jpg,,Is.L 67,"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.",Ed. pr.,,LP,Littmann 1943,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,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,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.,,"Al-ʿĪsāwī, Rif Dimašq Governorate, Syria",https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/2971
im0067000.jpg,,Is.L 67,"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.",Ed. pr.,,LP,Littmann 1943,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,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,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.,,"Al-ʿĪsāwī, Rif Dimašq Governorate, Syria",https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/2971
im0067001.jpg,,Is.L 67,"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.",Ed. pr.,,LP,Littmann 1943,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,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,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.,,"Al-ʿĪsāwī, Rif Dimašq Governorate, Syria",https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/2971
im0067004.jpg,,Is.L 67,"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.",Ed. pr.,,LP,Littmann 1943,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,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,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.,,"Al-ʿĪsāwī, Rif Dimašq Governorate, Syria",https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/2971
im0048987.jpg,,Is.L 67,"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.",Ed. pr.,,LP,Littmann 1943,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,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,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.,,"Al-ʿĪsāwī, Rif Dimašq Governorate, Syria",https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/2971
im0048984.jpg,,Is.L 67,"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.",Ed. pr.,,LP,Littmann 1943,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,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,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.,,"Al-ʿĪsāwī, Rif Dimašq Governorate, Syria",https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/2971
im0049657.jpg,,Is.L 67,"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.",Ed. pr.,,LP,Littmann 1943,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,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,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.,,"Al-ʿĪsāwī, Rif Dimašq Governorate, Syria",https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/2971
im0049658.jpg,,Is.L 67,"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.",Ed. pr.,,LP,Littmann 1943,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,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,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.,,"Al-ʿĪsāwī, Rif Dimašq Governorate, Syria",https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/2971
