WH 3016
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 3016
- Transliteration
- l grm bn ʾ{s¹}mnt f h lt s¹yb
- Translation
- By Grm son of {ʾs¹mnt} and O Lt [send] running water
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- WH: s¹yr "accompany [him] for s¹yb "[send] running water"
- Commentary
- For s¹yb perhaps compare Classical Arabic suyūb (sg. sayb) "gifts, benefactions, favours" (Lane 1481b), or Modern Central Arabian dialect sīb "a rivulet" (Kurpershoek 2005: 153).
- Provenance
- WH Cairn 40 and this inscription were rediscovered and photographed by the Badia Epigraphic Survey in 2018 and the co-ordinates given are exact.
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Associated Inscriptions
- Winnett, F.V. & Harding, G.L. Inscriptions from Fifty Safaitic Cairns. (Near and Middle East Series, 9). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1978.
- Lane, E.W. An Arabic-English Lexicon, Derived from the Best and Most Copious Eastern Sources. (Volume 1 in 8 parts [all published]). London: Williams & Norgate, 1863-1893.
- Kurpershoek, P.M. Oral Poetry & Narratives from Central Arabia. V. Glossary, Indices, and List of Recordings. 5. (Studies in Arabic Literature, XVII/V). Leiden: Brill, 2005.
- Site
- WH Cairn 40, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 1958–1959
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Deity, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0013929
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