LP 399
Text Information
- Siglum
- LP 399
- Alternative Sigla
- Is.Mu 262
- Transliteration
- l dṯn bn s²hm bn bhʾ bn tmhm bn ʿw[[]]ḏ bn s²kr bn ʾdm bn ḫṭmt bn bʾs² bn ḍf w wgd ʾṯr ʾs²yʿ -h f ngʿ
- Translation
- By Dṯn son of S²hm son of Bhʾ son of Tmhm son of {ʿwḏ} son of S²kr son of ʾdm son of Ḫṭmt son of Bʾs² son of Ḍf and he found the traces of his companions and he grieved in pain
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
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Associated Inscriptions
- LP 398 (= Is.Mu 261)
- 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.
- Site
- Al-ʿĪsāwī, Rif Dimašq Governorate, Syria
- Date Found
- 1904–1905; 1996–2002
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Finding inscription(s), Genealogy, Grieving, Lineage (ancestor)
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0027269
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