OCIANA
Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

WH 2504

Text Information

Siglum
WH 2504
Transliteration
l bʾs¹h bn ʾġnyt bn wgdʾl
Translation
By Bʾs¹h son of ʾġnyt son of Wgdʾl

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
WH wgdʾ{r} emended to wgdʾ{l}
Commentary
It is cleare from the photograph that the final letter is a hook l.

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
WH 2485–2485.1 on an adjacent face

  • 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
#0013395
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