WH 17
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 17
- Transliteration
- l ġyrʾl bn ʾbgr bn wd w wgm ʿl- ʾbgr ḏ- ʾl ḍf s¹nt ngy whbʾl hdy
- Translation
- By Ġyrʾl son of ʾbgr son of S¹d and he grieved for ʾbgr of the lineage of Ḍf the year Whbʾl was appointed commander
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- WH 17: 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
- Chiselled
- 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
- #0010761
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