WH 25
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 25
- Transliteration
- l zky bn mṭr w gls¹ mn ks¹
- Translation
- By Zky son of Mṭr and he halted briefly because [his camel] was lame (?)
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- WH 25: mnks¹ “he sat dejected”
- Commentary
- ks cf. Ar kaws maṣdar of kāsa = walking upon three legs, being hamstrung, or raisng one of its legs and hopping on the other three (Lane 2638). [MCAM]
- Provenance
- Burquʿ
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Copy only
- 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
- #0010769
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