LP 289

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: LP 287: s¹r for s¹b
Commentary: Al-ʿĪsāwī Area H. This text was copied twice: LP 289 by Littmann himself and LP 1085 by one of the "servants of the Princeton University Archaeological expedition" (Littmann 1943). The third letter is identical to the b's of bn and bʿḏrh and quite different from the r. The text has been vandalized by the addition of hammered bars across the openings of the b and ḏ of the second name.

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: Mu 18-27 (on the same face); 16 (on an adjacent face)

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.