WH 1691
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 1691
- Transliteration
- l ʾs¹[[]] bn ys¹mʿl bn ṣʿd
- Translation
- By ʾs¹ son of Ys¹mʿl son of Ṣʿd
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- WH: ʾs¹{d} for ʾs¹[[]]
- Commentary
- The author carved a b after ʾs¹ and then erased it. The following bn looks like bt on the photograph but the line crossing it is thinner than the vertical and is probably a small crack in the surface.
- Provenance
- WH Cairn 21 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
- Associated Inscriptions
- WH 1685–1690
- 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 21, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 1958–1959
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0012537
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