OCIANA
Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

WH 1200

Text Information

Siglum
WH 1200
Transliteration
l ʾḥwr bn gdy bn kmd bn mlkt bn frhz w wrd ʿnf s¹nt qtl kmn
Translation
By ʾḥwr son of Gdy son of Kmd son of Mlkt son of Frhz and he watered at ʿnf the year the Kmn was killed

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
WH: "he went down to ʿnf " for "he watered at ʿnf"
Commentary
This text was published as WH 1200 a.

Provenance
WH Cairn 17 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.

Associated Signs
Cartouche
Associated Inscriptions

  • 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 17, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
Date Found
1958–1959
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Date (s¹nt), Genealogy, Place-name, Watering
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0012010
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