LP 386
Text Information
- Siglum
- LP 386
- Alternative Sigla
- Is.M 135
- Transliteration
- l ʾ{s¹} bn wʾl bn s²hyt bn s¹ny w wgm {ʿ}l- ʾḫw -h ʿl- ḥn w ʿl- ʿrm
- Translation
- By {ʾs¹} son of Wʾl son of S²hyt son of S¹ny and he grieved {for} his two brothers for Ḥn and for {ʿrm}
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- LP 386: ʾḫ for ʾ{s¹}; ʿmr for ʿrm. LP 1101: s²hy(t) for s²hyt; w[g][m] for wgm; ʿl for {ʿ}l; ʾḫ(h) (w) for ʾḫw -h; ʿm for ʿrm
- Commentary
- The inscription was copied twice once (LP 386) by Littmann and once by one of the "servants of the Princeton University Archaeological Expedition" (Littmann 1943: iii). The text was incised with a broad point. The third letter could be ḫ or s¹ but its size in relation to the previous ʾ and compared to the ḫ later in the text suggests that it is more likely to be s¹. From the position of the ʿ-r of the final name it would seem that the author originally omitted them and then inserted them below the line. Littmann's reading ʿmr is less probable since the r is placed before the m. As Littmann notes this text shows clearly that the dual of ʾḫ in annexation is ʾḫw. Given that there is no w after ʾḫw-h, it is likely that ḥn and ʿrm are the names of the brothers. Littmann did recognize the identity of LP 386 and 1101 and his reading ʾḫ -h w was based on the assumption that the placement of w and had been inadvertently reversed by the author or the copyist.
- 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
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Incised
- Associated Remains
- None
- Associated Inscriptions
- LP 387–390 (= Is.M 131-134) 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.
- Site
- Al-ʿĪsāwī, Rif Dimašq Governorate, Syria
- Date Found
- 1904–1905; 1996–2003
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Genealogy, Grieving, Relatives
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0026905
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