LP 345

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: LP 345: ʿ(b)ṭ for ʿwṭ
Commentary: Area H. The inscription is chiselled between the third and fourth lines of LP 344 (Is.Mu 34). Note that the form of the t is similar to that of LP 344 (= Is.Mu 34), that is with an extra line hanging from one of the cross bars.

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

Special Letter Forms: T with a side-stroke on the end of one prong; m rectangular; ṭ without cross-stroke
Technique: Chiselled

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.