LP 422
Text Information
- 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
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- Translation
-
By Bny son of Whbʾl and he grieved for Ṣʿm and so [grant] relief for him O Lh and security for Whbʾl
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- Language and Script
- Safaitic
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.
- Editio Princeps
- OCIANA
- Name Distinguished
- Larger-normal/normal
- Technique
- Scratched
- Direction of Script
- Curving
- Associated Inscriptions
- [Is.Mu] Inscriptions recorded at al-ʿĪsāwī by Muna Al-Muʾazzin, on the Safaitic Epigraphic Survey Programme, 1995–2002, and published here.
- [LP] 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.
- [MISS] 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.
- Site
- Al-ʿĪsāwī, Rif Dimašq Governorate, Syria
- Date Found
- 1904–1905
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Deity, Genealogy, Grieving, Isolated Prayer
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0027055
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16 Sep, 2024
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