LP 408

Siglum: LP 408
Alternative Sigla: Is.Mu 90
Transliteration: l ḥr bn wrd bn ḥr w wgd ʾṯr ʾs²yʿ -h f n{g}[ʿ]
Translation: By Ḥr son of Wrd son of Ḥr and he found traces of his companions and {he grieved in pain}

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: LP 408: ḥb for ḥr
Commentary: Although b and r are not distinguished in this text comparison of the genealogy with that in LP 407 suggests that the first and third names should be read ḥr.

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: OCIANA
Original Translation Credit: OCIANA

Associated Inscriptions: Beginning of Mu 88 and 89 (on the same face); 91 (on an adjacent 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.