LP 288

Siglum: LP 288
Alternative Sigla: Is.Mu 29
Transliteration: l s²ʿ bn ḥg bn mlk bn frq bn s¹lm s¹nt gs²m w ḥnʾl
Translation: By S²ʿ son of Ḥg son of Mlk son of Frq son of S¹lm the year of Gs²m and Ḥnʾl

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: LP 288: s¹nt gs² m- wḥl “he walked the whole night in the mire” for gs²m w ḥnʾl G. Ryckmans in the Addenda to LP, p. 348: s¹nt gs²m w ḥnʾl on the basis of Dunand 1330a [= C 269] and Littmann notes that the letters ʾl at the end are present in another copy.
Commentary: See C 269 for s¹nt gs²m w ḥnʾl and compare s¹nt ḥrb gs²m ʾl ṯmd in WH 3782.1 and s¹nt ġs²m ṯmd in WH 3729.3.

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: LP 288 and p. 348
Original Translation Credit: LP 288 and p. 348

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.