WH 2405

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: WH: lgʾ for {{l}}{{g}}; s²ṣb for {s²}{{z}}b
Commentary: The inscription has been vandalized by the addition of strokes to some of the letters and the hammering over of others (e.g. the first letters of the first and third names). The y of the first name, the l and the g of the second and the z (if that is what it is) of the third name have all had extra lines or dots added to them. In the third name, the circle at the top of the second letter, which WH read as ṣ, appears to be in a slightly different technique from that of the rest of the letter including the horizontal line at the bottom and we have therefore read it as z.

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: Ed. pr.

Winnett, F.V. & Harding, G.L. Inscriptions from Fifty Safaitic Cairns. (Near and Middle East Series, 9). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1978.