OCIANA
Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

WH 1112

Text Information

Siglum
WH 1112
Transliteration
l ngʿt bn yʿly bn bny bn s²ʿ bn bnyt w wgd ʾṯr lhll ḍll f bʾs¹ ʿl- ʿm f nhy s¹lm l- ḏ s¹ʾr w ʿwr l- ḏ yʿwr
Translation
By Ngʿt son of Yʿly son of Bny son of S²ʿ son of Bnyt and he found the traces of Lhll (?) who has passed away. And he was miserable for ʿm. And, Nhy (?) [grant] security to him who lets [the inscription] remain but [give] blindness to him who obliterates [it].

Interpretation

Provenance
WH Cairn 15 and this inscription were rediscovered and photographed by the Badia Epigraphic Survey in 2018 and the co-ordinates given are exact.
Original Reading Credit
Ed. pr.

  • 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 15, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
Date Found
1958–1959
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0011918
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