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LP 304

Siglum
LP 304
Alternative Sigla
Is.Mu 45
Transliteration
l bʿr bn mty bn bʿr bn ḥrb
Translation
By Bʿr son of Mty son of Bʿr son of Ḥbb

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
LP: ḥbb.
Commentary
In both LP 303 and this text which are on the same stone, the last name is clearly hrb.

Provenance
Area H. 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
Ed. pr.
Original Translation Credit
Ed. pr.

Technique
Incised

Associated Inscriptions
Mu 46-47 (on the same 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.
Site
Al-ʿĪsāwī, Rif Dimašq Governorate, Syria
Date Found
1996–2002
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0027048
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