LP 374
Text Information
- Siglum
- LP 374
- Alternative Sigla
- Is.M 143
- Transliteration
- l ḫlf bn bʿr bn zbdʾl bn s²mt w dṯʾ h- ʿrḍ f h lt s¹lm m- bʾs¹ w m- h- s¹nt
- Translation
- By Ḫlf son of Bʿr son of Zbdʾl son of S²mt and he spent the season of the later rains in this valley and so O Lt [grant] security from misfortune and from the drought
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- LP 374: mn ḥlt “from cunning” for m- h- s²nt “from the drought”
- Commentary
- See the commentary to LP 373 (= Is.M 142). When the stone was rediscovered by the SESP, the final phrase was seen to read m- h- s¹nt on the original and this would presumably mean “from the drought” (cf. Lane 1448a-b, 1449c).
- 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 358 (= Is.M 140) on another face; LP 359 (= Is.M 141) begins on another face and ends of the same face as the end of LP 373 (= Is.M 142); LP 374 (= Is.M 143) is on the face on which LP 373 (= Is.M 142) ends; Is.Mu 87 (not recorded by Littmann) is on another 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.
- Lane, E.W. An Arabic-English Lexicon, Derived from the Best and Most Copious Eastern Sources. (Volume 1 in 8 parts [all published]). London: Williams & Norgate, 1863-1893.
- 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
- Deity, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Season, Topographic features, Weather
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0026913
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