WH 2881
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 2881
- Transliteration
- l s¹ḥy bn {k}n
- Translation
- By S¹ḥy son of {Kn}
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- WH: s¹by bn hr for s¹ḥy bn {k}n
- Commentary
- The text is lightly incised in very thin letters between WH 2871 and 2871.1. On the penultimate letter, which WH read as h, there is a curve at the right end which suggests that it is possibly a k.
- 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 Inscriptions
- WH 2869–2880
- 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
- #0013787
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