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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

LP 396

Text Information

Siglum
LP 396
Alternative Sigla
Is.Mu 319
Transliteration
l gmm bn ʾnʿm w ḥll h- dr s¹nt ʾrḫ ʾs²rʾ
Translation
By Gmm son of ʾnʿm and he camped here in the year of ʾrḫ ʾs²rʾ

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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  • 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
Camping, Date (s¹nt), Genealogy, Present in a place
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0027330
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