WH 24
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 24
- Transliteration
- l ʿty bn wqs¹ bn s¹lm w mlḥ f h lt s¹lm w ġnyt w mḥlt l- ḏ yʿwr
- Translation
- By ʿty son of Wqs¹ son of S¹lm and he traded in salt and so O Lt [grant] security and abundance but dearth to him who scratches out
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- WH 24: Translation of mḥlt as "misfortune"
- 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
- #0010768
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