LP 285

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: LP 285: s¹ny for s¹ly ; LP 1096: ṣ(ḥ)ly for ṣly; glm for wdm
Commentary: LP 285 (= LP 1096) and LP 286 (= LP 1095) are on the same face of the same rock. LP 1095–1096 were copied by "servants of the Princeton University Archaeological Expedition" (see LP p. iii) and Littmann did not recognize the identity of these two copies with LP 285 and 286, which he himself had copied. His emendation of the second name in LP 1096, was forced by the fact that the copyist had assigned the t of ʾʿtr in LP 1095 (= LP 286) to this text, an understandable error given its position. Since *s¹tly seemed an unlikely name Littmann read it as ṣ(ḥ)ly.

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. Littmann visited the site twice when he and other members of the expeditions copied some 450 inscriptions. Between 1996 and 2003, the Safaitic Epigraphic Survey Programme [SESP] made a comprehensive survey of the site recording over 3500 inscriptions.
Original Reading Credit: OCIANA
Original Translation Credit: OCIANA

Associated Inscriptions

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 Muna Al-Muʾazzin, on the Safaitic Epigraphic Survey Programme, 1995–2002, and published here.