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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

WH 1200.1

Text Information

Siglum
WH 1200.1
Transliteration
l ḥrk bn s¹dn
Translation
By Ḥrk son of S¹dn

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
WH: l klb bn bns¹db (?) for l ḥrk bn s¹dn
Commentary
This text was published as WH 1200 b. There are cracks in the rock between the second and third and between the fourth and fifth signs, both of which WH took to be letters.

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
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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
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0012011
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