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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

WH 749

Siglum
WH 749
Transliteration
l ʾmh bn krk
Translation
By ʾmh son of Krk

Interpretation

Commentary
Said to be illegible in WH and certainly invisible on the photograph but clear on the copy. JRWH p. 511 reads l ʾmh bn hrk.

Provenance
WH Cairn 11 and this inscription were rediscovered and photographed by the Badia Epigraphic Survey in 2018 and the co-ordinates given are exact.
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA

  • 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 11, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
Date Found
1958–1959
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0011535
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