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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

WH 2807

Text Information

Siglum
WH 2807
Transliteration
l ʾftn bn bgt bn ʾmz bn wdm bn ʾwb bn kdh bn ʾftn
Translation
By ʾftn son of Bgt son of ʾmz son of Wdm son of ʾwb son of Kdh son of ʾftn

Interpretation

Commentary
Note that the author carves the n of bn at various different angles to the b, and the the upper fork of the ʾ in ʾwb is at 90º to the stem.

Provenance
WH Cairn 22 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

  • 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 22, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
Date Found
1958–1959
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0013706
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