LP 352

Interpretation

Commentary: Littmann thought that LP 352 [copied by Littmann] was ʿprobably the same inscription as No. 1102ʾ [copied by one of the ‘Servants of the Princeton University Archaeological Expedition’ (Littmann 1943: iii)] and the copies certainly look very similar both to each other and to the text in the photograph.

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.

Associated Inscriptions: LP 354 (= Is.Mu 98), LP 353 (= Is.Mu 99), Is.Mu 101 on adjacent faces

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.