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LP 422

Siglum
LP 422
Alternative Sigla
Is.Mu 52
Transliteration
l bny bn whbʾl w wgm ʿl- ṣʿm f rwḥ h lh l- -h w s¹lm l- whbʾl
Translation
By Bny son of Whbʾl and he grieved for Ṣʿm and so [grant] relief for him O Lh and security for Whbʾl

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
LP 422: w wgm ʿl whbʾl for w wgm ʿl ṣʿm f rwḥ h lh l- -h w s¹lm l- whbʾl
Commentary
The text runs along the edge of the face and then curves back on itself. Littmann did not record the central part of the text. He also read ʿl whbʾl for l- whbʾl although there is no ʿ on his copy. The Whbʾl prayed for at the end of the text was presumably the author's father.

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
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Original Translation Credit
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Name Distinguished
Larger-normal/normal
Technique
Scratched

Associated Inscriptions

  • 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.
  • Macdonald, M.C.A., Al Muʾazzin, M. & Nehmé, L. Les inscriptions safaïtiques de Syrie, cent quarante ans après leur découverte. Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions & Belles-Lettres 1996: 435-494.
  • 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
1904–1905
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Deity, Genealogy, Grieving, Isolated Prayer
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0027055
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