WH 16
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 16
- Transliteration
- l s¹ʿd bn ghm bn mlk w wgm ʿl- ʾbgr ḏ- ʾl ḍf mt s¹nt ngy whbʾl hdy
- Translation
- By S¹ʿd son of Ghm son of Mlk and he grieved for ʾbgr of the lineage of Ḍf [who] died the year Whbʾl was appointed commander
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- WH 16: translation of ngy whbʾl hdy "Whbʾl rescued Hdy".
- Commentary
- See the commentary to WH 15.
- Provenance
- Burquʿ
- Original Reading Credit
- Ed. pr.
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Scratched
- Associated Remains
- Cairn
- Winnett, F.V. & Harding, G.L. Inscriptions from Fifty Safaitic Cairns. (Near and Middle East Series, 9). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1978.
- Site
- WH Cairn 1, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 1958–1959
- Current Location
- in situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0010760
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