WH 1700
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 1700
- Transliteration
- l nʿmn bn ys¹mʿl bn ṣʿd ḏ- ʾl ḍf w ʾs²rq b- h- ḫl bʿd h- nʿm s¹nt ḥrb h- mlk ʾl s¹bṭt f h lt s¹lm
- Translation
- By Nʿmn son of Ys¹mʿl son of Ṣʿd of the lineage of Ḍf and he migrated to the inner desert with the horses following the livestock the year the king made war upon the lineage of S¹bṭt so, O Lt, may he be secure.
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- WH: yʿd for ṣʿd
- Commentary
- This text was published as WH 1700 a.
- 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.
- 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
- #0012546
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