Sigla: Is.H 806; Is.B 2  Script: Thamudic B

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Transliteration
l ḍtm h- s¹fr w h- frs¹

Translation
By Ḍtm are the inscription and the horse

Commentary
The text which is in Thamudic B is carved below the drawing. The claim to h-s¹fr w h– frs¹ is unusual. The forms of the l,and f are typical of Thamudic B but are also found occasionally in Safaitic.

Subjects
Genealogy Drawing of a domestic animal

Country: Syria
Region: Rif Dimašq
Site: Al-ʿĪsāwī
Site number: 0
Latitude: 32.903569
Longitude: 37.320314
Present Location: In situ
Find date: 1996–2002
Field collector: Hussein Zeinaddin
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 Drawings: SESP95 RD 18: A man on an equid waving a stick or very short spear and a man in front of it holding it by a rope to its nose in his right hand and waving a stick in his left. Above the equid a felid and an oryx.
Associated Inscriptions: Is.H 804-805

References:
[Is.H] Inscriptions recorded at al-ʿĪsāwī by Hussein Zeinaddin, on the Safaitic Epigraphic Survey Programme, 1995–2002, and published here.

[Is.B] Inscriptions recorded by the Safaitic Epigraphic Survey Programme, 1995, at al-ʿĪsāwī, on the south-western slopes of the promontory north of the well, and published here.

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