Siglum: Is.M 85.1  Script: Safaitic

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Transliteration
l ḥrbn bn ḫfy bn rbn bn bny w dṯʾ h- dr bql f h bʿls¹my s¹lm

Translation
By Ḥrbn son of Ḫfy son of Rbn son of Bny and he spent the season of the later rains here [amongst] spring pasture and so O Bʿls¹my [grant] security

Commentary
By a brother of the authors of M 72 and M 85.2. There is absolutely no trace of any letter between the m of bʿls¹m and the s¹ of s¹lm and the writer seems to have made the y of the second name which is immediately above do double service as the final letters of bʿls¹my and of ḫfy. Cf. the way the author of M 72 used the name Bny twice. M 85.1 and 85.2 are enclosed in a lightly incised cartouche and have suffered a number of abrasions.

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: Michael Macdonald
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 Signs: 7 half-circles along the top edge of the cartouche and another 6 (possibly the seventh is under an abrasion) joined by a horizontal line just below f h bʿls¹my in M 85.1.
Associated Inscriptions: M. 85.2 (on the same face)
Associated Remains: None

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