C 3263

Siglum: C 3263
Alternative Sigla: LSI 125; LP 348; Is.Mu 95
Transliteration: l ʾḏnt bn wrd bn ʾnʿm bn khl bn ʿm bn khl ḏ- ʾl nġbr f h lt w s²ʿhqm w gdʿwḏ w bʿls¹mn w ds²r ġyrt l- -h w ʿwr w ʿrg w nqʾt b- wdd l- ḏ yʿwr h- ḫṭṭ
Translation: By ʾḏnt son of Wrd son of ʾnʿm son of Khl son of ʿm son of Khl of the lineage of Nġbr and so O Lt and S²ʿhqm and Gdʿwḏ and Bʿls¹mn and Ds²r [grant] abundance to him [the author] and [inflict] blindness and lameness and ejection from the grave by a loved one on whoever scratches out the carving

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: LSI 125 : nqʾt b- wd(q) "bloodshot eyes [?]" LP 348: nqʾt b- wdd "ejection into calamities" C emends nqʾt b- wdd to nqʾt b- w{q}d "revenge by fire";
Commentary: For the translation of nqʾt b- wdd see Al-Jallad 2015: 136, 209, 335.

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. Littmann visited the site twice when he and other members of the expeditions copied some 450 inscriptions. Between 1996 and 2003, the Safaitic Epigraphic Survey Programme [SESP] made a comprehensive survey of the site recording over 3500 inscriptions
Original Reading Credit: OCIANA
Original Translation Credit: OCIANA

Associated Inscriptions

Ryckmans, G. Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum: Pars Quinta, Inscriptiones Saracenicae Continens: Tomus I, Fasciculus I, Inscriptiones Safaiticae. Paris: E Reipublicae Typographeo, 1950–1951.
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.
Al-Jallad, A.M. An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions. (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 80). Leiden: Brill, 2015.
Littmann, E. Semitic Inscriptions. Part IV of the Publications of an American Archaeological Expedition to Syria in 1899-1900. New York: Century, 1904.
Inscriptions recorded at al-ʿĪsāwī by Muna Al-Muʾazzin, on the Safaitic Epigraphic Survey Programme, 1995–2002, and published here.