LP 385
Text Information
- Siglum
- LP 385
- Alternative Sigla
- Is.M 173
- Transliteration
- l s¹ḫr bn mqm bn ḥml bn ns²bt w wgd s¹fr tmʾl f wgʿ f h lt ʿyr m- ḏ qtl -h
- Translation
- By S¹ḫr son of Mqm son of Ḥml son of Ns²bt and he found the inscription of Tmʾl and so he grieved in pain [for him]. So, O Lt [grant] vengeance from him who killed him
Interpretation
- 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 Inscriptions
- LP 381–384 (= Is.M 169, 172, 171, 174), Is.M 170 on face A; Is.M 174–175 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
- Subjects
- Deity, Finding inscription(s), Genealogy, Grieving, Isolated Prayer, Revenge
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0026943
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