OCIANA
Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

WH 2318

Siglum
WH 2318
Transliteration
l g[[]]mm bn frʾ bn kmy
Translation
By {Gmm} son of Frʾ son of Kmy

Interpretation

Commentary
The author wrote an ʿ after the second letter and then scratched it over. Given the relative sizes of the second letter and the one he erased it seems likely that the former was intended as a g.

Provenance
WH Cairn 34 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

  • 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 34, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
Date Found
1958–1959
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0013190
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