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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

LP 369

Text Information

Siglum
LP 369
Alternative Sigla
Is.M 193
Transliteration
l lʿṯmn bn nʿm bn lʿṯmn bn whbʾl bn nġbr bn grmʾl w wgm ʿl- ʾs²yʿ -h w ḥll h- dr ----
Translation
By Lʿṯmn son of Nʿm son of Lʿṯmn son of Whbʾl son of Nġbr son of Grmʾl and he grieved for his companions and he camped here ----

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
LP 369: ʿm for nʿm
Commentary
The inscription runs from one face onto another face and then curls round and runs back onto the first face. The letters after h-dr have been very effectively hammered over. The second name is clearly nʿm not ʿm as Littmann copied it.

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
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Original Translation Credit
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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
Camping, Genealogy, Grieving, Present in a place
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0026963
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