WH 1832
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 1832
- Transliteration
- l ʾn w ḍrṭ b- ḏ{w}l
- Translation
- By ʾn and he farted in Ḏwl
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- WH: l ʾnw---- bn nr h- ʿr "The ass [?] is by ʾnw son of Nr"
- Commentary
- After the first four letters the text is scratched over but the reading seems certain even though it is difficult to interpret the last four letters. There is no drawing of an ass which might support WH's reading.
- 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
- WH 1832–1834 + 6 lines and possibly a stick-figure human enclosed in a 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
- Genealogy, Insults
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0012685
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