WH 30
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 30
- Transliteration
- l s²rb bn ʾḥbb bn ns²wn h- rʿy h- rḥb
- Translation
- By S²rb son of ʾḥbb son of Ns²wn in the spacious pasture
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- WH: This spacious pasture belongs to S²rb son of ʾḥbb son of Ns²wn
- Commentary
- M.C.A. Macdonald (Burial between the Desert and the Sown, Damaszener Mitteilungen 15 2006:294-295) argues against the notion of the ownership of immovable property in desert societies. The SD translation renders the phase "h- rʿy h- rḥb" as a locative expression, which could, in theory, continue the Proto-Semitic locative case *-um, reflexes of which are found in the Classical Arabic prepositions baʿdu 'yet', etc. Given the limitations of the orthography, this suggestion is impossible to prove at this point.
- Provenance
- Burquʿ
- Original Reading Credit
- Ed. pr.
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Direct hammered
- Associated Remains
- Cairn
- Associated Inscriptions
- Winnett, F.V. & Harding, G.L. Inscriptions from Fifty Safaitic Cairns. (Near and Middle East Series, 9). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1978.
- Al-Jallad, A.M. An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions. (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 80). Leiden: Brill, 2015.
- Site
- WH Cairn 1, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 1958–1959
- Current Location
- in situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0010774
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