LP 360

Siglum: LP 360
Alternative Sigla: Is.M 196
Transliteration: l {ʾ}nʿm bn ʿbd bn ʾlht bn whb w rʿy h- {m]{ʿ}zy l- nfs¹ -h s¹nt ḥrb ʾl dʾf {ṭ}yʾ f h lt s¹lm w lʿn ḏ ḫ{b}l h- ḫ{ṭ}{ṭ}
Translation: By {ʾnʿm} son of ʿbd son of ʾlht son of Whb and he pastured the {goats} by himself the year {Ṭyʾ} plundered the ʾl Dʾf, so, O Lt, may he be secure but curse him who would {damage} this {carving}

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: LP 360: w rʿy h- {m]{ʿ}zy l- nfs¹ -h s¹nt ḥrb ʾl dʾf ṭqṭ "and he tended the goats by himself in the year of the war of the tribe of Dʾf with utmost difficulty" for w rʿy h- {m]{ʿ}zy l- nfs¹ -h s¹nt ḥrb ʾl dʾf {ṭ}yʾ "nd he pastured the goats by himself the year the lineage of Dʾf plundered {Ṭyʾ}"
Commentary: Several of the letters are not well formed (for instance the first and second examples of ṭhave no horizontal cross bar, while the third has a cross bar but only two verticals). The text has also suffered damage in places, particularly over the first two letters of the word mʿzy. The expression l- nfs¹ -h is unusual (see Al-Jallad 2015: 154–155), Being alone is more often expressed by the verb whd. The date could, of course mean either "the year Ṭyʾ plundered the ʾl Dʾf" or "the year the ʾl Dʾf plundered Ṭyʾ"

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

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.
Al-Jallad, A.M. An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions. (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 80). Leiden: Brill, 2015.
Inscriptions recorded at al-ʿĪsāwī by Michael Macdonald, on the Safaitic Epigraphic Survey Programme, 1995–2003, and published here.

Date Found: 1904–1905, 1996–2003
Current Location: In situ
Subjects: Curse, Date (s¹nt), Deity, Domestic animals, Genealogy, Group (in the narrative), Isolated Prayer, Outside peoples, Pasturing
Script: Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID: #0026966
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