WH 74
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 74
- Transliteration
- l ʿdy bn tmhm w rʿy h- rḥbt
- Translation
- By ʿdy son of Tmhm and he pastured the raḥaba
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- NAEN I p. 23 32 n.4: w rʿy h- rḥbt "and he pastured this raḥabah".
- Commentary
- Lane 1051c-1052a: raḥabah pl. raḥab - “a desert tract, an ample tract of land that produces much herbage”.
- 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
- 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
- #0010818
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