LP 1064+1065

Siglum: LP 1064+1065
Alternative Sigla: Is.H 763
Transliteration: l ḫl bn mʿn bn ʾʿdg bn mʿn bn mlk bn rgl ḏ- ʾl fṣmn w wld h- mʿzy b- s¹nt ṯmn ʿs²rt l- mlk ʾgrfṣ f h lt s¹lm w ġnmt l- ḏ dʿy h- s¹fr
Translation: By Ḫl son of Mʿn son of ʾʿdg son of Mʿn son of Mlk son of Rgl of the lineage of Fṣmn and he helped the goats give birth in the year eighteen of king Agrippa and so O Lt [grant] security and booty to him who leaves the inscription untouched

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: LP 1064: l ḫl bn mʿn bn ʾʿdg bn mʿn bn ml{k} bn rmn ḏ- ʾl g{h} w wld h-mʿz{y} snt ṯmn ʿs²rt "and the goats brought forth young [that was] in the year eighteen [123/124 AD]" LP 1065: l mlk hrr fṣhyt mnl w mlkt which after several emendations he suggested might mean "By the "king of the Romans". And he ascended, [when he was] Taim, to the top of the mountains over Nela and Malikat".
Commentary: LP 1064 and 1065 were copied by the camp servants of the Princeton Expedition (see Littmann 1943: iii) and they did not realise that they were one inscription. The copies were so bad that it was not possible for Littmann to see this either. It is now clear that this is a single inscription dated to year 18 of Agrippa II (AD 68/69). It has to be Agrippa II because Agrippa I reigned for only six years altogether.

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.