WH 69
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 69
- Transliteration
- l wfq bn rbʿt bn ʿdy bn s²mr bn ʿmrʾl bn ʿmr w ḥḍr h- dr b- ḏkr
- Translation
- By Wfq son of Rbʿt son of ʿdy son of S²mr son of ʿmrʾl son of ʿmr and he stayed here near permanent water when the sun was in Aries.
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- WH ḥḍr h- dr b- ḏkr "he was present at this camping-place in a heavy downpour" NAEN and MST on ḥḍr
- Commentary
- For ḏkr meaning Aries see Al-Jallad 2016: 99.
- 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. No. 69
- Al-Jallad, A.M An Ancient Arabian Zodiac. The Constellations in the Safaitic Inscriptions. Part II. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 27, 2016: 84–106.
- Site
- WH Cairn 2, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 1958–1959
- Current Location
- in situ
- Subjects
- Astronomical, Genealogy, Present in a place, Watering
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0010813
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