WH 57
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 57
- Transliteration
- l gʿl bn {ḥ}mlt bn mnʿm w gml h- ḫṭṭ
- Translation
- By Gʿl son of Ḥmlt son of Mnʿm and he made the drawing beautiful
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- WH 57: ḥmlt for {ḥ}mlt
- Commentary
- The ḥ is not all clear on the photograph and has thus been placed in brackets.
- 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
- Ed. pr.
- Technique
- Chiselled & scratched
- Associated Drawings
- Camel
- Associated Remains
- Cairn
- Associated Inscriptions
- WH 53-56, WH 58-60
- 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
- #0010802
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