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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

WR.A 45

Text Information

Siglum
WR.A 45
Transliteration
l ḫdm {b}n ym
Translation
By Ḫdm {son of} Ym

Interpretation

Commentary
See commentary to WR.A 22. On the far right-hand side of the face. Chiselled.

Provenance
Some 8 km from the village of Rushaydah on the road to Zalaf. A cairn on the right bank of Wādī Rushayda, on a promontory at its confluence with another smaller Wādī coming from the south-west. The promontory is littered with huge boulders and fallen pieces of the cliff. The highest point of the promontory is crowned with a cairn, itself surmounted by a small cylindrical tower of stones. At the foot of the cairn are 2 Bedouin tombs. Site 32 is this promontory.
Site
Site 32. The promontory at the confluence of Wādī Rušaydah and an unnamed wadi, Al-Suwaydāʾ (al-Sweidah) Governorate, Syria
Date Found
1995
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0036003
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