LP 306
Text Information
- Siglum
- LP 306
- Alternative Sigla
- Is.Mu 60
- Transliteration
- l bnʾlh bn ʾḥlm bn ʾġrr w ṯql ʿl- [[]] ʾḫ -h w ʿl- ʾb -h w ʿl- dd -h w qnṭ h- s²nʾ f h lt [[]] {w} gdʿwḏ wqyt w wgd ʾṯr ʾs²yʿ -h f ngʿ
- Translation
- By Bnʾlh son of ʾḥlm son of ʾġrr and he was heavy-hearted on account of his brother and of his father and of his paternal uncle and he was afraid of the enemy and so O Lt {and} Gd-ʿwḏ [grant] protection; and he found the inscriptions of his companions and he was sad.
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- LP 306: ʾzkr for ʾġrr; [ʾ]b -h for ʾb -h; w gdʿwḏ for [[]] {w} gdʿwḏ
- Commentary
- The second letter of the third name is clearly ġ and though the next looks at first like a k it has a hook at the bottom of the stem making it a r. The name ʾġrr is unattested but compare. Arabic aġarr “of a bright complexion”. The author erased a letter between ʿl- and ʾḫ. Between lt and gdʿwḏ he wrote w twice and seems to have tried to erase both. We follow Littmann's interpretation of the words ṯql and qnṭ.
- 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
- Special Letter Forms
- f only 3 strokes he wrote the first one with 4 and then erased the fourth; w always has at least one projecting line sometimes 2
- Technique
- Incised
- Associated Inscriptions
- Mu 61 (on the same face)
- 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
- 1996–2002
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Deity, Finding inscription(s), Genealogy, Grieving, Isolated Prayer, Relatives
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0027064
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