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LP 307

Text Information

Siglum
LP 307
Alternative Sigla
Is.Mu 61
Transliteration
l ʾḥlm bn bnʾlh bn ʾ<ḥ>lm
Translation
By ʾḥlm son of Bnʾlh son of {ʾḥlm}

Interpretation

Commentary
Area H. The author appears to have written ʾʾlm for the third name and then erased the second ʾ. ʾḥlm is restored on the basis of LP 306

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.
Original Reading Credit
Ed. pr.
Original Translation Credit
Ed. pr.

Technique
Incised

Associated Inscriptions
Mu 60 (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
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0027065
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