LP 388

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: LP 1024: s¹ʿm for s¹ʿd
Commentary: There is an extraneous stroke before the lām auctoris. The identification is reasonably certain because of the shape of the b of ʿbdhm in both LP copies and on the original despite the miscopying of the last letter in LP 1024. Littmann did not identify the two copies the first of which (LP 388) he made and the second (LP 1024) was made one of the "servants of the Princeton University Archaeological Expedition" (Littmann 1943: iii).

Provenance: 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: Ed. pr.
Original Translation Credit: Ed. pr.

Associated Remains: None
Associated Inscriptions: LP 387 (= Is.M 131); LP 389–390 (= Is.M 133-134) on this face; LP 386 (= Is.M 135) on an adjacent face

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.