LP 337
Text Information
- Siglum
- LP 337
- Alternative Sigla
- Is.R 133
- Transliteration
- {l} bʾḫh bn ḥwq bn kwnt w lṯ
- Translation
- {By} Bʾḫh son of Ḥwq son of Kwnt and a lion
Interpretation
- Commentary
- The inscription is carved around a clumsy drawing of a carnivore and so it is possible that the author forgot a h- before lṯ.
- 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.
- Associated Signs
- Cartouche with 7 lines attached to it.
- Associated Drawings
- A very clumsy drawing of a carnivore
- Associated Inscriptions
- LP 335 (= Is.Mu 152) and LP 336 (= Is.Mu 151)
- 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 Reem Salih, on the Safaitic Epigraphic Survey Programme, 1996, 2000, and published here.
- Site
- Al-ʿĪsāwī, Rif Dimašq Governorate, Syria
- Date Found
- 1904–1905; 1996, 2000
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Drawing of a wild animal, Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0028515
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