OCIANA
Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

WH 1697

Siglum
WH 1697
Transliteration
l wd bn ẓnʾl bn ḫlṣ w wld h- mʿzy f h lt s¹lm
Translation
By Wd son of Ẓnʾl son of Ḫlṣ and he helped the goats give birth and so O Lt [grant] security

Interpretation

Commentary
The author originally carved the goddess's name as lṭ and then corrected it to lt.

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
Ed. pr.

Associated Drawings
A strange stick-figure animal.
Associated Inscriptions

  • 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
Subjects
Deity, Domestic animals, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0012543
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