WH 53
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 53
- Transliteration
- l ẓnʾl bn rgl bn grmʾl bn qḥs² bn ḥḍg w ġzz f h lt s¹lm w ʿwr l- ḏ yʿwr
- Translation
- By Ẓnʾl son of Rgl son of Grmʾl son of Qḥs² son of Ḥḍg and he was on a raid so O Lt [grant] security and [inflict] blindness on him who effaces [the inscription]
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- WH 53: Translation of gzz as "he was in a fight" BRWH: ġzz should be interpreted as the equivalent of ġzw "he was on a raid", rather than "he fought"
- Provenance
- WH Cairn 2 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.
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Scratched
- Associated Remains
- Cairn
- 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 2, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 1958–1959
- Current Location
- in situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0010798
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