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LP 336

Text Information

Siglum
LP 336
Alternative Sigla
Is.Mu 151
Transliteration
l ʾmrʾl bn ḥmyt
Translation
By ʾmrʾl son of Ḥmyt

Interpretation

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
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Original Translation Credit
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Associated Inscriptions
LP 335 (= Is.Mu 152) and LP 337 (= Is.R 133)

  • 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
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0027156
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