WH 1829
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 1829
- Transliteration
- l ḥwr bn grmh
- Translation
- By Ḥwr son of Grmh
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- WH: glmh for grmh
- Commentary
- Note that unlike the lām auctoris (which has a curve at the top but not the bottom), the second letter of the patronym has a curve at both ends, like the last letter of the first name, and so must be a r.
- 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
- 11 lines and various letters
- 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
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0012682
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