WH 80
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 80
- Transliteration
- l s¹by bn drkt bn mʿly w ḫlb f h rḍy nqm
- Translation
- By S¹by son of Dkrt son of Mʿly and he was deceived so O Rḍy [grant] vengeance
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- WH: mʿll for mʿly; "O Rḍy, avenge [him]
- Commentary
- WH take "nqm" as an imperative verb "avenge!", but the absence of a pronominal suffix makes this interpretation unlikely. It is more likely a nominal direct object of a gapped verb (see Wright vol II, p.72). the third l of the inscription is clearly a y on the photograph.
- 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 Signs
- cartouche
- Associated Remains
- Cairn
- Associated Inscriptions
- WH 78-79, WH 81-86
- 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
- #0010824
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