LP 379

Siglum: LP 379
Alternative Sigla: Is.M 138
Transliteration: l ʿmrt bn rbʾl bn ʾnʿm bn ʾs¹ w ḥll h- dr bql
Translation: By ʿmrt son of Rbʾl son of ʾnʿm son of ʾs¹ and he camped here [amongst] spring herbage

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: LP 379: (r)(b)ʾl for rbʾl
Commentary: Littmann miscopied the first two letters of the second name as b-r whereas they are clearly r-b on the stone.

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

Associated Remains: None
Associated Inscriptions: LP 377–378 = Is.M 136-137); LP 380 (= Is.M 139) on the same 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.