LP 356
Text Information
- Siglum
- LP 356
- Alternative Sigla
- Is.M 144
- Transliteration
- l s¹ny bn s¹ḫr bn ʿbd bn ʾdm bn ms¹k w wgm ʿl- hq[[]]wm w ʿ
- ḥmlt w ʿl- ---- - Translation
- By S¹ny son of S¹ḫr son of ʿbd son of ʾdm son of Ms¹k and he grieved for hq[[]]wm and for Ḥmlt and for ----
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- LP 356: (ʾ)qwm for hqw[[]]m; w [ʿ][l-] ʿln ---- for w ʿl- ----
- Commentary
- Although he copied Is.M 144 (= LP 356) and Is.M 147 (= LP 355), Littmann seems to have ignored all the other inscriptions on this stone (that is Is.M 145–146, 148–151). Unlike the rest of the text which is incised, the letters of the second name are scratched and Littmann apparently did not see, and therefore did not copy, the r which is particularly faint. He therefore suggested that the ḫ was a monogram of ḫ and r. In fact, however, the r is larger even than the ḫ and forms a link between the first two lines of the text. Littmann regarded hqwm as an error for ʾqwm citing w wgm ʿl- ʾqwm in LP 410 and ʿl ʾq[w] m in LP 411 — to which one might add w wgm ʿl ḥmlt w ʾqʾm in Is.M 150 (on the same stone as the present text) — but there is nothing to indicate that the same person is referred to in all four texts. However the author did make two errors. He wrote the q of hqwm twice making a feeble attempt to erase the second. He also wrote h for l in the second ʿl-. The final name is very faintly scratched and is illegible.
- 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 & scratched
- Associated Remains
- None
- Associated Inscriptions
- Is.M 145 on the same face; Is.M 146 on the ridge between this face and an adjacent face; LP 355 (= Is.M 147) and Is.M 148 and 151 on adjacent faces
- 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
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Genealogy, Grieving
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0026914
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