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LP 383

Text Information

Siglum
LP 383
Alternative Sigla
Is.M 171
Transliteration
l tmʾl bn dgg bn ns²bt bn ktm bn grmʾl
Translation
By Tmʾl son of Dgg son of Ns²bt son of Ktm son of Grmʾl

Interpretation

Commentary
The text is carved downwards in front of the horse and then curves upwards between its legs.

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.
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Original Translation Credit
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Associated Inscriptions
LP 381–382 (= Is.M 169, 172), LP 384–385 (= Is.M 174, 173), Is.M 170 on face A; Is.M 175 and the beginning of 176 on face B; 177–179 on face C

  • 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
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0026941
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