Siglum: Is.L 22 Script: Safaitic
Transliteration
l mḥds¹ bn kṯbt h- bkrt
Translation
By Mḥds¹ son of Kṯbt is the young she-camel
Apparatus Criticus
LP 1039: klbt for kṯbt.
Commentary
Area A. The third letter of the second name is more likely to be a b than a r because it has the same shape as the other two bs in this text whereas the r of bkrt has a shallower curve. Associated drawing to be numbered.
Subjects
Genealogy
Country: Syria
Region: Rif Dimašq
Site: Al-ʿĪsāwī
Site number: 15
Map reference: x: 0.297; y: 0.106 (Lambert Syria)
Latitude: 32.903569
Longitude: 37.320314
Present Location: In situ
Find date: 1996–2003
Field collector: Laïla Nehmé
Survey: Safaitic Epigraphic Survey Programme (SESP)
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.
Associated Inscriptions: L 23
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