LP 1013

Siglum: LP 1013
Alternative Sigla: Is.H 149
Transliteration: l mlkt bn ʾrs¹ w tẓr h- s¹my f mṭr w h ḏs²r s¹lm h- s¹n[t]
Translation: By Mlkt son of ʾrs¹ and he waited for the rains and it rained and O Ḏs²r [grant] security this {year}

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: LP 1013: l mlkt bn ʾbn w ḫs¹r f mṭ(y) w h ḏs²r s¹lm -h (m-) (h-) s¹l(ṭ)(n) "By Mlkt son of ʾbn and he suffered a loss while {journeying in haste}, so, O Ḏs²r, keep him safe from the authorities"
Commentary: The second name could be ʾrṣ or ʾbṣ. It is possible that a t should be restored at the end and the words translated as "this year", but one would have to suggest that the author omitted it by mistake. There are some lightly incised lines below the end of the text which the copyist on Littmann's expedition included in his copy, but which are not part of the inscription. This is a good example of the problems Littmann faced in trying to interpret some of the copies made by "servants of the Princeton University Archaeological Expedition" (LP p. iii).

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

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.