LP 408
Text Information
- Siglum
- LP 408
- Alternative Sigla
- Is.Mu 90
- Transliteration
-
l ḥr bn wrd bn ḥr w wgd ʾṯr ʾs²yʿ -h f n{g}[ʿ]
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- Translation
-
By Ḥr son of Wrd son of Ḥr and he found traces of his companions and {he grieved in pain}
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- Language and Script
- Safaitic
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.
- Editio Princeps
- OCIANA
- Special Letter Forms
- b and r not distinguished
- Technique
- Incised
- Direction of Script
- Curving
- Associated Inscriptions
- Beginning of Mu 88 and 89 (on the same face); 91 (on an adjacent face)
- [Is.Mu] Inscriptions recorded at al-ʿĪsāwī by Muna Al-Muʾazzin, on the Safaitic Epigraphic Survey Programme, 1995–2002, and published here.
- [LP] 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.
- Site
- Al-ʿĪsāwī, Rif Dimašq Governorate, Syria
- Date Found
- 1904–1905; 1996–2002
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0027095
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Updated
16 Sep, 2024
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OCIANA,. 'LP 408.' OCIANA. 16 Sep, 2024. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/3581. Accessed: 13 Aug, 2025.