LP 311

Text Information

Siglum
LP 311
Alternative Sigla
Is.M 89
Transliteration
l hgry bn ṯry bn kn h- ḫṭṭ
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Translation
By Hgry son of Ṯry son of Kn is the carving
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Language and Script
Safaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
LP 311: hghy for hgry; omits bn kn; reads h- ḫṭṭ with LP 312.
Commentary
Associated drawing to be numbered. See also photo PH ZF 7-8 This author may be the same as that of C 54. The reading of the third and fourth letters is complicated by the fact that the surface in this area of the face has flaked and repatinated to exactly the same colour as the letters. It is this flaking which is responsible for the apparent fork at the end of the fifth letter which caused Littmann to read it as h. The second bn is at 90° to the rest of the text and the b is square as opposed to the rounded first b. Although the letters h- ḫṭṭ are incised (like M 90) rather than chiselled (like the rest of M 89) their size and position suggests that they are more likely to belong to 89 than to 90.

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Name Distinguished
Chiselled/incised
Technique
Chiselled & incised
Direction of Script
Curving

Associated Remains
None
Associated Inscriptions
LP 312 (= Is.M 90); and Is.M 91 (on the same face); LP 314 and Is.M 85 (on an adjacent face) and LP 315 (=Is.M 88) (on another)
Site
Al-ʿĪsāwī, Rif Dimašq Governorate, Syria
Date Found
1996–2003
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Old OCIANA ID
#0026857
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Updated 16 Sep, 2024 by OCIANA