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Is.Mu 53

Text Information

Siglum
Is.Mu 53
Transliteration
l ḥb l h l l l l l l b h h
Translation
l ḥb l h l l l l l l b h h

Interpretation

Commentary
Stray letters on a face adjacent to LP 422 (= Is.Mu 52).

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

Associated Drawings
A crude drawing of a felid pouncing
Associated Inscriptions

  • 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
1996
Current Location
In situ
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0027056
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