Siglum: LP 1006  Script: Safaitic

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Transliteration
l m(l)ʾm (w) s¹ḥ ymn

Translation
By {Mlʾm}. And he travelled southward

Subjects
Genealogy

Country: Syria
Region: Rif Dimashq
Site: Al-ʿĪsāwī
Latitude: 32.903569
Longitude: 37.320314
Present Location: In situ
Find date: 1904–1905
Field collector: "Servants of the Princeton University Archaeological Expedition" (Littmann 1943: iii); The SESP team
Survey: The Princeton University Archaeological Expeditions to Syria; The Safaitic Epigraphic Survey Programme
Notes: 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 visited the site twice when he and other members of the expeditions copied some 450 inscriptions. Between 1996 and 2003, the Safaitic Epigraphic Survey Programme [SESP] made a comprehensive survey of the site recording over 3500 inscriptions.

References:
[LP] 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.

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