WH 2816
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 2816
- Transliteration
- l ʿmrt bn l{ʿ}z bn ʿmt w rʿy md{b}r
- Translation
- By ʿmrt son of {Lʿz} son of ʿmt and he pastured {the inner desert}
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- WH: {z}z for l{ʿ}z
- Commentary
- WH see a wasm (like a cross) at the end of the text. It seems to be a stray line which crosses the r of mdbr and also a fault in the rock which makes it look like a cross.
- 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
- OCIANA
- Associated Drawings
- Two horsemen
- 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
- Subjects
- Genealogy, Pasturing, Place-name
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0013716
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