WH 1031
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 1031
- Transliteration
- l mgd bn {l}d bn qdm w {n}ẓr h- s¹nt ḥfl ʾṭ{r}ṣ h- s¹----{ġ}ʾrbʿ{ḫ}lr{ʾ} f h lt s¹lm
- Translation
- By Mgd son of {Ld} son of Qdm and he was keeping watch the year of the assembly of {ʾṭrṣ} and h- s¹----{ġ}ʾrbʿ{ḫ}lr{ʾ} so, O Lt [grant] security
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- WH: w ẓr h- s¹t ḥ<>fl ʾṭr ṣhs¹ hdb w <>rṣ "He slaughtered (with a flint knife) the six good milk-camels who cut off [the arm ?] of {ʾys) who milked [them]"
- Commentary
- For ḥfl "assembly" see Al-Jallad & Jaworska (in press).
- 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.
- Al-Jallad, A. & Jaworska, K.A. Dictionary and Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions. Volume I: Dictionary. Leiden: Brill, 2019
- Site
- WH Cairn 12, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 1958–1959
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0011831
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