LP 311
Text Information
- Siglum
- LP 311
- Alternative Sigla
- Is.M 89
- Transliteration
- l hgry bn ṯry bn kn h- ḫṭṭ
- Translation
- By Hgry son of Ṯry son of Kn is the carving
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.
- Provenance
- Area H. 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.
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Name Distinguished
- Chiselled/incised
- Technique
- Chiselled & incised
- 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
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0026857
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