WH 2637
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 2637
- Transliteration
- l bnġdbt bn ʾws¹t bn ḥs¹m bn s²qr bn ʿm
- Translation
- By Bnġbt son of ʾws¹t son of Ḥs¹m son of S²qr son of ʿm
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- WH 2637 a
- Commentary
- A horizontal line has joined the n and ġ of the first name and ends just above the d. Note that the ʿ of the final name is a dot which also serves as one of the 7 dots above it.
- 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.
- Original Translation Credit
- Ed. pr.
- Technique
- Direct hammered & incised
- Associated Signs
- Two sets of seven dots
- Associated Drawings
- I roughly hammered camel at the beginning over which the lām auctoris has been inscribed
- Associated Remains
- Cairn
- Associated Inscriptions
- WH 2634 - WH 2637.1
- 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
- #0013532
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