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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

WH 1721

Siglum
WH 1721
Transliteration
s¹wr bn lḏn
Translation
S¹wr son of Lḏn

Interpretation

Commentary
No lām auctoris appears on the photograph. There is a very short stroke more lightly carved than the rest of the letters which WH take to be it but this is most unlikely given the large regular and firmly incised letters of the rest of the inscription.

Original Reading Credit
OCIANA

  • 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
#0012568
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