Sigla: C 3261; LSI 123; LP 350; Is.Mu 93  Script: Safaitic

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Transliteration
l ʿzhm bn ʾnʿm bn ʿzhm ḏ- ʾl nġbr s¹nt ḥgz {-h} bʿls¹mn w byt h- dr w ḍrṭ qdmt

Translation
By ʿzhm son of ʾnʿm son of ʿzhm of the lineage of Nġbr the year Bʿls¹mn withheld it [the rain] and he spent the night here and he farted first

Apparatus Criticus
LSI 123: lts¹nḥ {ʿ}zt bʿls¹mn "may good luck be given [?] by the power of Bʿls¹mn!"
LP 350: [l-] s¹nt ḥg bt bʿls¹mn "in the year in which he betook himself to the house of Bʿls¹mn"
C 3261: l-s¹nt ḥ[g]zh bʿls¹mn "the year in which Bʿls¹mn restrained him"
for s¹nt ḥgz {-h} bʿls¹mn "the year Bʿls¹mn withheld it [the rain]"
Macdonald 2003: 278, n. 8: s¹nt ḥgz{t} bʿls¹mn "the year of {the withholding} of Bʿls¹mn [that is, the year he withheld the rain].

Subjects
Genealogy Date (s1nt) Weather Deity Present in a place Insults

Country: Syria
Region: Rif Dimashq
Site: Al-ʿĪsāwī
Latitude: 32.89645
Longitude: 37.31101
Present Location: In situ
Find date: 1899–1900, 1904–1905, 1996–2003
Field collector: Littmann, SESP team
Survey: The American Archaeological Expedition to Syria, The Princeton University Expeditions to Syria, The 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. 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
Associated Signs: Polygon with 4 circles in it at the point where text turns back on itself
Associated Inscriptions: C 3260 [= LP 351]; C 3262 [= LP 349]; C 3263 [= LP 348], C 3264 [= LP 346]

References:
[Is.Mu] Inscriptions recorded at al-ʿĪsāwī by Muna Al-Muʾazzin, on the Safaitic Epigraphic Survey Programme, 1995–2002, and published here. Number: 93

[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. Number: 350

[LSI] Littmann, E. Semitic Inscriptions. Part IV of the Publications of an American Archaeological Expedition to Syria in 1899-1900. New York: Century, 1904. Number: 123

Macdonald, M.C.A. References to Sīʿ in the Safaitic Inscriptions. Pages 278-280 in J. Dentzer-Feydy, J.-M. Dentzer & P.-M. Blanc (eds), Hauran II: Les installations de Sīʿ 8. Du sanctuaire à l'établissement viticole. M. Kalos & P. Tondon (architectes), H. Hatoum. (2 volumes). (Bibliothèque archéologique et historique, 164). Beirut: Institut Français d'Archéologie du Proche-Orient, 2003. Pages: 278, n. 8

[C] Ryckmans, G. Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum: Pars Quinta, Inscriptiones Saracenicae Continens: Tomus I, Fasciculus I, Inscriptiones Safaiticae. Paris: E Reipublicae Typographeo, 1950–1951.

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