WH 2396
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 2396
- Transliteration
- l mlk bn ws¹mt bn ʿbd
- Translation
- By Mlk son of Ws¹mt son of ʿbd
Interpretation
- Commentary
- WH published this as WH 2396a. Note that what they published as WH 2396b is in fact the first name of WH 2417 (= in WH 2417a). WH 2396 is on an adjacent face of the same rock as WH 2417, 2417.1, and 2418 The third name is clearly ʿbd on the photograph followed by an extraneous mark.
- 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
- Associated Signs
- 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 34, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 1958–1959
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0013273
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