WH 68
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 68
- Transliteration
- l ḥrb bn ẓnn w tẓr m----
- Translation
- By Ḥrb son of Ẓnn and he awaited m----
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- WH: m---- "F[ate]"
- Commentary
- WH restores the final word of this inscription as m[ny], Classical Arabic manan, pl. manāyā, "fate, death", based on the attestation of this expression in WH 287.
- 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
- Chiselled
- 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
- #0010812
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