WH 73
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 73
- Transliteration
- l hwd bn ʿbd bn d{r}h bn ʿnq bn s¹ḫr bn ʿnq bn s¹ḫr w ḥwb ʿl- ḥbb
- Translation
- By Hwd son of ʿbd son of {Dhr} son of ʿnq son of S¹ḫr and he wept with grief over Ḥbb
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- WH 73: translation of narrative "and he grieved for a loved one"
- Commentary
- See WH 62 for a discussion on the SD translation of Ḥbb in this type of context.
- 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
- 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
- #0010817
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