WH 18
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 18
- Transliteration
- l {m}ṣʿr bn ms¹k bn ġyrʾl w wgm ʿl- <ʾ>bgr s¹nt ngy
b l dy - Translation
- By {Mṣʿr} son of Ms¹k son of Ġyrʾl and he grieved for {ʾbgr} the year {Whbʾl} was appointed {commander}
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- WH 18: gʿṣr...hbgr s¹nt ngy dbhl ʾdy; translation starting from s¹nt: "the year Whbʾl saved Hdy"
- Commentary
- The second letter looks like a g but cf. the m of wgm. The first letter of ʾbgr is carved as a h; whbʾl is written dbhl, and hdy is written ʾdy. See commentary of WH 15 on the translation of ngy hdy.
- Provenance
- Burquʿ
- Original Reading Credit
- Ed. pr.
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Scratched & incised
- 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
- #0010762
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