WH 2976
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 2976
- Transliteration
- l ws¹dt qbr h- bl(y) l- rkh
- Translation
- By Ws¹dt he dug the {baliyya} for Rkh
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- WH: transl.: "For Wsdt a grave. (H)ubal lamented [and] dug it".
- Commentary
- For other examples of a baliyya (a grave beside which the deceased's camel is killed or left to die) see WH 163, 165, and 166.
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- 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
- #0013886
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