OCIANA
Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

WH 3017

Siglum
WH 3017
Transliteration
l ʾḫwf bn wʾbt h- ẓrt
Translation
By ʾḫwf son of Wʾbt is the enclosure

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
WH: h-ẓlt for h-ẓrt.
Commentary
The author seems to have begun the second name as ʾw and then realising his mistake have scraped over the letters and continued the text at right angles. H- ẓrt is very lightly scratched. There are what appear to be some stray markings on the face where the inscription ends.

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
Ed. pr.

  • 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 40, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
Date Found
1958–1959
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Genealogy, Structure
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0013931
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