LP 375

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: LP 375: mġny for mfny.
Commentary: The middle letters of the final name are damaged by abrasions and there is an inverted "V" (which might be the end of the s²) scratched below the ʿ, giving the impression that the letter is ḫ. To add to the confusion, the author of LP 376 (= Is.H 524) carved a ʿ before the s² in the same name and then ineffectually tried to erase it. This inscription is by the father of LP 376 (= Is.H 524).

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.

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.