LP 540
Text Information
- Siglum
- LP 540
- Transliteration
- l ḥnn bn ḥnn bn ʾys¹ bn (k)(s¹)ṭ bn ḥnn bn zbdyn bn rṯʾl w wgm ʿl- ʾḫt -h w bky w bny h- rgm s¹nt ngy m- nmrt h- s¹lṭn ʿl- ʾl ʿwḏ
- Translation
- By Ḥnn son of Ḥnn son of ʾys¹ son of Ks¹ṭ son of Ḥnn son of Zbdyn son of Rṯʾl and he grieved for his sister and wept [for her] and built this sepulchre, in the year in which he escaped from Nmrt of the Government to the tribe ʿwḏ
Interpretation
- Provenance
- Unfortunately, the Safaitic Epigraphic Survey Programme was unable to locate the site of Qabr Nāṣir and it does not appear in Geonames. The co-ordinates given here are therefore those of al-ʿĪsāwī.
- 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.
- Site
- "On the road from al-ʿĪsāwī to Qabr Nāṣir" (Littmann 1943: 137), Al-Suwaydāʾ (al-Sweidah) Governorate, Syria
- Date Found
- 1904–1905
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0009124
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