WH 2469
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 2469
- Transliteration
- l wt{s¹} bn ḥr h- nfs¹t
- Translation
- By {Wts¹} son of Ḥr is the funerary monument
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- WH: ḥb for ḥr.
- Commentary
- WH's reading of the second name as ḥb cannot be correct. Compare the r of ḥr with the b of bn, where WH are probably right that the author forgot the n and then carved it across the arms of the b).
- 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.
- 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
- #0013350
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