WH 2559
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 2559
- Transliteration
- l rbʾl bn ys²q
- Translation
- By Rbʾl son of Ys²q
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- WH: (ʿ)s²q for ys²q
- Commentary
- There is a heavily hammered inscription on the same face the letters of which were joined with ligatures. WH did not include it in the edition.
- 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 Inscriptions
- WH 2560 (on another face)
- Winnett, F.V. & Harding, G.L. Inscriptions from Fifty Safaitic Cairns. (Near and Middle East Series, 9). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1978.
- Inscriptions recorded during the Badia Epigraphic Survey 2018 and published here
- Site
- WH Cairn 34, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 1958–1959
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0013452
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