WH 832
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 832
- Transliteration
- l ʾs¹wdʾ bn bʾs¹h bn ʿlhm bn qṭʿn bn hgml bn fk
bn ḍf bn gnʾl - Translation
- By ʾs¹wdʾ son of Bʾs¹h son of ʿlhm son of Qṭʿn son of Hgml son of {Fk}l son of Ḍf son of Gnʾl
Interpretation
- Commentary
- Despite the distinct curve at one end, the third letter in the name fkl must be a l not a r because the name at this part of the ḍf genealogy is fkl in SESP.U. 4 (where hgml and fkl have been reversed), C 2533 and 3160.
- Original Reading Credit
- Ed. pr.
- Ryckmans, G. Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum: Pars Quinta, Inscriptiones Saracenicae Continens: Tomus I, Fasciculus I, Inscriptiones Safaiticae. Paris: E Reipublicae Typographeo, 1950–1951.
- Winnett, F.V. & Harding, G.L. Inscriptions from Fifty Safaitic Cairns. (Near and Middle East Series, 9). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1978.
- Inscriptions recorded by the Safaitic Epigraphic Survey Programme in 1995 in Umm al-Ǧathādir (a tributary of Wādī al-Shām) and published here.
- Site
- WH Cairn 11, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 1958–1959
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0011619
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