LP 405
Text Information
- Siglum
- LP 405
- Alternative Sigla
- Is.Mu 148
- Transliteration
- l ʾnʿm bn kn bn mlk bn ʾnʿm bn ḥrs¹ bn kml {w} wgm ʿl- ʾb -h w ʿl- ʾm -h w ʿl- ʾḫ -h w ʿl- ḫl -h w ʿl- ʾws¹ f h lt s¹lm l- ḏ s¹ʾr w ʿwr l- ḏ yʿwr h- s¹fr w nqʾt
- Translation
- By ʾnʿm son of Kn son of Mlk son of ʾnʿm son of Ḥrs¹ son of Kml {and} he grieved for his father and for his mother and for his brother and for his maternal uncle and for ʾws¹ and so O Lt [grant] security to whoever leaves [the inscription] intact and [inflict] blindness on whoever may scratch out the inscription and ejection from the grave
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- LP 405: ʾrym for ʾnʿm; ʾnʿ[m] for ʾnʿm
- Commentary
- This inscription is very similar to C 2379, though here the genealogy is taken back another generation and the author grieves for his maternal uncle whereas in C 2379 it is for the son of his maternal uncle. For other inscriptions by the same author see C 1950, 2379, 2837, Is.H 172.
- 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
- 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.
- Inscriptions recorded at al-ʿĪsāwī by Hussein Zeinaddin, on the Safaitic Epigraphic Survey Programme, 1995–2002, and published here.
- 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
- 1904–1905; 1996–2002
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Curse, Deity, Genealogy, Grieving, Isolated Prayer, Relatives
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0027153
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