LP 286

Siglum: LP 286
Alternative Sigla: LP 1095; Is.Mu 13
Transliteration: l ymlk bt ʿm bn ʾʿtr bn s¹mkʾl w rḍy s¹lm
Translation: By Ymlk daughter of ʿm son of ʾʿtr son of S¹mkʾl and Rḍy [grant] security

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: LP 286: b(n) for bt though he notes that it was bt on the stone; ʾʿtb for ʾʿtr LP. 1095: ʾmn bn for ymlk; btʿm for bt ʿm; b[n] for bn; ṣʿb for ʾʿtr; w [h] rḍy for w rḍy
Commentary: Bt for bnt is frequent in Safaitic. The upper fork of the ʾ of the third name has been filled in. It is not necessary to assume with LP that the ʿ and t of this name were omitted and added above the line. If LP 285 (= Mu 12) was written first it would have forced a change of direction on the author of LP 286 (= Mu 13). The fourth letter of ʾʿtr has a shallower curve, like the r of rḍy, unlike the tighter curves of the b's of bt and bn. There appears to be a line joining the l of the last name and the following w. LP 1095–1096 were copied by "servants of the Princeton University Archaeological Expedition" (Littmann 1943: iii) and Littmann did not recognize the identity of these two copies with LP 285 and 286, which he himself had copied. The copyist of 1095 and 1096 assigned the t of ʾʿtr in LP 1095 to the second name (s¹ly) in LP 1096 (= LP 285) which Littmann then emended to s¹(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.