LP 312

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: LP 312: reads h-ḫtt at the end of this text rather than LP 311 (= Is.M 89).

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

Associated Signs: 3 parallel lines to the right of the first name
Associated Drawings: A she-camel suckling its baby
Associated Remains: None
Associated Inscriptions: LP 311 (Is.M 89) and Is.M 91 (on the same face); LP 314 (= Is.M 86) and Is.M 85 (on an adjacent face); and LP 315 (= Is.M 88) (on another)

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.
Inscriptions recorded at al-ʿĪsāwī by Michael Macdonald, on the Safaitic Epigraphic Survey Programme, 1995–2003, and published here.