WH 63
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 63
- Transliteration
- l mlqf bn ʿmrn bn ġrb w wgm ʿl- ʿgr w ʾs¹ḫr w ngʿ
- Translation
- By Mlqf son of ʿmrn son of Ġrb and he grieved for ʿgr and ʾs¹ḫr
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- WH 63: ...w ngʿ
- Commentary
- The edition reads w ngʿ following ʾs¹ḫr. These two words are curiously smaller than the rest of the inscription and scratched in more deeply. They, rather, look closer to the hand of WH 67, and so we have removed them from the current reading.
- 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
- OCIANA
- 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
- #0010808
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