WH 76
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 76
- Transliteration
- l gnt bn ʿd bn---- nm {l-} h- s¹my s¹nt yʿly
- Translation
- By Gnt son of ʿd son of ---- {to} the heavens in the year of Yʿly [?]
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- WH: gnnt, but there is only one n in first name on photograph; l- for {l-}
- Commentary
- There is a stray mark in between the first n and t on the photograph that could be mistaken for an n. The second {l-} is very similar to the y's of this hand.
- 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
- Direct hammered
- Associated Signs
- cartouche and 11 dots
- 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
- #0010820
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