WH 2327
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 2327
- Transliteration
- l mʿḍ bn ḥmyn w ḥr mʿ s²ʿ -h w rʿy mdbr f ṣyf
- Translation
- By Mʿḍ son of Ḥmyn and he returned with his flock and he pastured the inner desert in summer
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- MST p. 7 n. 35: w rʿy mdbr f ṣyf - and he pastured the desert and then spent the early summer; p. 8 w ḥr mʿ s²ʿ - and he returned with his companion
- 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
- MST p. 7 n. 35
- 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
- #0013199
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