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
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- 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
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- Language and Script
- Safaitic
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- WH 17: translation of ngy whbʾl hdy "Whbʾl rescued Hdy"
- Commentary
- See the commentary to WH 15.
- Editio Princeps
- Ed. pr.
- Technique
- Chiselled
- Direction of Script
- Boustrophedon (starting from left)
- Associated Remains
- Cairn
- [WH] 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
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0010761
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16 Sep, 2024
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