LP 673
Text Information
- Siglum
- LP 673
- Transliteration
- l ʾḥrb bn s²ḥl bn ʾḥrb bn ms¹k bn s²rb w bny h- rgm w ʿwr (l-) ḏ yʿwr h- s¹fr w nqʾt b- wdd
- Translation
- By ʾḥrb son of S²ḥl son of ʾḥrb son of Ms¹k son of S²rb and he built the funerary cairn, so may he who would efface this writing go blind and then be thrown out of the grave by a loved one
Interpretation
- Provenance
- Unfortunately, the Safaitic Epigraphic Survey Programme was unable to locate the sites of Qabr Nāṣir and Ṣanāyim al-Gharz and they do not appear in Geonames. Dussaud & Macler describe Ghadīr al-Darb as "a muddy pool of water" in Wādī al-Gharz (1903: 27 [429]). The co-ordinates given above are those provided by Geonames, but this places it some 220 m north of the left bank of the Wādī, so they should be taken as approximate.
- 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 Qabr Nāṣir to Ṣanāyim al-Ġarz not far east from Ġadīr]al-Darb" (Littmann 1943: 170), Al-Suwaydāʾ (al-Sweidah) Governorate, Syria
- Date Found
- 1904–1905
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0009257
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