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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

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
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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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