WH 1778
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 1778
- Transliteration
- l nhb bn mʿs¹ h- {h}{w} w h- bkrt
- Translation
- By Nhb son of Mʿs¹ is the {hw} and the young she-camel
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- WH: h-hw "the marks (i.e. the inscription"
- Commentary
- The three letters between the second name and w h-bkrt are difficult to interpret. The first is a clear h, the second, which looks like another h or a y, has been damaged, and the third is either a w to which a long tail has been attached or a y the stem of which runs through the loop.
- 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 Drawings
- A large male camel with a hairy hump and two smaller female camels, one in outline. All three have exaggeratedly large humps.
- 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
- #0012632
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