WH 2874
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 2874
- Transliteration
- l wḥs² bn bʾs¹
- Translation
- By Wḥs² son of Bʾs¹
Interpretation
- Commentary
- The text is incised in thin letters between WH 2875 and 2872 and runs vertically immediately in front of and partially on the large hammered drawing of an equid.
- Provenance
- WH Cairn 39 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 Drawings
- A large pecked equid (?) with part of the interior left unpecked.
- Associated Inscriptions
- WH 2869–2873, 2875–2881
- 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 39, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 1958–1959
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0013780
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