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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

LP 371

Text Information

Siglum
LP 371
Alternative Sigla
Is.M 191
Transliteration
l s¹ny bn ʾnʿm bn s¹ny bn mḥlm w wgd s¹fr ʾḏnt
Translation
By S¹ny son of ʾnʿm son of S¹ny son of Mḥlm and he found the inscription of ʾḏnt

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
LP: s¹fr ḫ[l] -h "{maternal uncle}" for ʾḏnt
Commentary
Although the last two words are difficult to make out on the photographs they are clear on the stone as recorded in the SESP copy. The inscription referred to must be LP 366.

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 362–371(= Is.M 190, 189, 188, 186, 187, 185, 195, 193, 192, 191 respectively)

  • 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
Finding inscription(s), Genealogy
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0026961
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