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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

WH 1813

Text Information

Siglum
WH 1813
Transliteration
l rbn b ṭḥn b s¹ʾr b hf
Translation
By Rbn son of Ṭḥn son of S¹ʾr son of Hf

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
WH: l rbn b[n] ṭḥl bn ʾr b[n] hs² for l rbn b ṭḥn b s¹ʾr b hf
Commentary
The text is carefully incised the use of b instead of bn is consistent and clearly deliberate.

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
An archer with a sword at his belt firing at another archer very schematically drawn.

  • 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
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0012666
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