LP 359

Siglum: LP 359
Alternative Sigla: Is.M 141
Transliteration: l s²mt bn bʿr bn gdy bn s¹ʿd bn s²nʾ w wgm ʿl- ḥbb {f} ḥ[b]b f h lt s¹lm l- ḏ s¹ʾ[[]]r w ʿwr l- ḏ yʿwr h- s¹fr
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Translation: By S²mt son of Bʿr son of Gdy son of S¹ʿd son of S²nʾ and he grieved for friend {after} {friend} and so O Lt [grant] security to whoever leaves [this inscription] intact and [inflict] blindness on whoever scratches out this inscription
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Language and Script: Safaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: LP 359: w wgm ʿl- ḥbb f ḥ(b)b "and he placed a stone on the tomb of Ḥbb in friendship" for w wgm ʿl- ḥbb {f} ḥ[b]b "and he grieved for friend {after} {friend}"
Commentary: The f in ḥbb f ḥbb has two strokes too many making it look like a s². It is quite different from the f introducing the invocation or that of s¹fr. The first b of the second ḥbb has been destroyed by over-hammering. There is a m between the ʾ and r of s¹ʾr part of which cuts across one fork of the ʾ. Its presence is inexplicable.

Special Letter Forms: f has three different forms cf odd f in M 143; r with only one hook in this text and M 142 but with two hooks in M143
Technique: Incised
Direction of Script: Curving

Associated Remains: None
Associated Inscriptions: LP 358 and 359 (= Is.M 140 and 141) begin on the same face; LP 373–374 (= Is.M 142–143) are on the face where LP 359 (= Is.M 141) ends; Is.Mu 87 (not recorded by Littmann) is on another face

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

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