LP 308

Siglum: LP 308
Alternative Sigla: Is.Mu 56
Transliteration: l ns²l bn mqm bn ḥml bn ns²bt w wgm ʿl- mqm w ʿl- ʿqrb w ʿl- s¹ḫr w ʿl- tmʾl w ʿl- mqm w ʿl- ḥml w h lt ʿwr ḏ yʿwr h- s¹{f}r
Translation: By Ns²ʾl son of Mqm son of Ḥmʾl son of Nbs²t and he grieved for ʿqrb and for S¹ḫr and for Ṭmʾl and for Mqm and for Ḥml and O Lt blind whoever scratches out the {inscription}

Interpretation

Commentary: The f of the last word is just visible under a patch of abrasion. The drawing is placed after the last word not between its letters as stated by Littmann. What he took as the r of s¹fr is in fact the claws of the scorpion.

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: OCIANA
Original Translation Credit: OCIANA

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.