WH 30

Siglum
WH 30
Transliteration
l s²rb bn ʾḥbb bn ns²wn h- rʿy h- rḥb
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Translation
By S²rb son of ʾḥbb son of Ns²wn in the spacious pasture
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Language and Script
Safaitic

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.

Editio Princeps
Ed. pr.

Technique
Direct hammered
Direction of Script
Boustrophedon (starting from left)

Associated Remains
Cairn
Associated Inscriptions

  • Al-Jallad, A. An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions. (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 80). Leiden: Brill, 2015.
  • [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
#0010774
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