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WH 2471

Text Information

Siglum
WH 2471
Transliteration
h bʿls¹mn s¹lḥ l- ḫṭ mn- ṯm{y}----
Translation
O Bʿls¹mn [grant] arms to Ḫṭ against {Ṯmy}----

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
WH: h bʿs¹mn blḥ {ʾ}ḫ "O Bʿls¹mn {ʾḫ} is weary"
Commentary
The inscription is thinly incised and begins immediately above the beginning of WH 2469. It is much longer than seen by WH and runs up to the third letter of WH 2472 and then down again where 2472 has been carved over it. Unfortunately, this has made it very difficult read.

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
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Associated Inscriptions
WH 2469–2470, 2472–2473.1

  • 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
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0013352
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