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WH 1141

Siglum
WH 1141
Transliteration
l ẓnʾl bn ʾbʾns¹ bn ẓnʾl ḏ- ʾl s¹ʿdʾl w s¹rt s¹mʿ ʾn ʿm -h
Translation
By Ẓnʾl son of ʾbʾns¹ son of Ẓnʾl of the tribe of S¹ʿdʾl and he served in a military unit and he heard that his grandfather

Interpretation

Commentary
NB the statement is written with the letters on their sides above the genealogy. The end of the text is obscured on the photograph by the photo number. NB Trimingham 1979: 143 "sammāʿ" ("hearers") was the Manichaean technical term for the novices as opposed to ṣidd¡qºn the initiates.

Original Reading Credit
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Special Features
Letter stance

  • 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
#0011949
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