WH 116
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 116
- Transliteration
-
l {ġ}tm bn bṭ bn ʿmr bn mlkt w ḥy{b} ʿ mḥbb ḥb
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- Translation
-
By {Ġtm} son of Bṭ son of ʿmr son of Mlkt and he lamented greatly over Mḥbb
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- Language and Script
- Safaitic
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- WH: translation of narrative "...he grieved for Maḥbūb whom he loved."
- Commentary
- Original ʿḥ for ʿ. The absence of a relative and/or resumptive pronoun makes WH's translation unlikely. The final word is better understood as a cognate accusative, which serves to intensify the effect of the statement, compare Classical Arabic: fariḥa farḥan šadīdan 'he was extremely happy'.
- Editio Princeps
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Direct hammered & chiselled
- Direction of Script
- Boustrophedon (starting from left)
- Associated Drawings
- two sequences of seven dots and a half-circle of twenty dots
- Associated Remains
- Cairn
- Associated Inscriptions
- WH 114-115, WH 117.1-117.3
- [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
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0010860
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Updated
16 Sep, 2024
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OCIANA. 'WH 116.' OCIANA. 16 Sep, 2024. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/31013. Accessed: 02 Jun, 2025.