WH 1749
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 1749
- Transliteration
- l s²rqt bn ykbr h- bkrt
- Translation
- By S²rqt son of Ykbr is the young she-camel
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- WH: s²nqt for s²rqt
- Commentary
- There are a lot of light scratches around the inscription which is more heavily incised. It is not clear why WH published the inscription on the adjacent face as WH 1814.
- Provenance
- WH Cairn 23 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 Signs
- Cartouche
- Associated Drawings
- A small outline she-camel within the cartouche round the inscription and large she-camel and two smaller male camels outside the cartouche..
- 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 23, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 1958–1959
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Drawing of a domestic animal, Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0012602
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