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Is.Mu 49

Text Information

Siglum
Is.Mu 49
Transliteration
l ʾḥlm
Translation
By ʾḥlm

Interpretation

Commentary
This text was not copied by Littmann and so does not appear in LP.

Provenance
Al-ʿĪsāwī is the name of a probably ancient well between two headlands on the eastern side of the Wādī al-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. This is Site G in Macdonald, Al-Muʾazzin & Nehmé 1996.
Original Reading Credit
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Original Translation Credit
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Technique
Scratched

  • 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
1904; 1996
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0027052
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