WH 79
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 79
- Transliteration
-
l rm----{ḫ}lm----yṯʿ w ḥll nʿ
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- Translation
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By Rm ---- {H̲lm} ---- Yṯʿ and he camped nʿ ----
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- Language and Script
- Safaitic
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- WH: ḥnn "and show pity" for ḥll
- Commentary
- WH reads the verb in this inscription as an imperative. It is more likely a third person singular as imperatives usually follow a subject introduced by the vocative h-. Moreover, the final two strokes of this word are rather elongated, virtually identical in length to the /l/ in {ḫ}lm, suggesting that we should read the verb as ḥll. The expression" PN and he camped X" is very common while "PN and he showed mercy X" is unknown.
- Editio Princeps
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- Technique
- Scratched
- Direction of Script
- Curving
- Associated Signs
- wasm
- Associated Remains
- Cairn
- Associated Inscriptions
- [WH] 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
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0010823
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16 Sep, 2024
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