WH 3049

Siglum: WH 3049
Transliteration: l ʾrʿh[[]] bn wʿd h- dr w qyẓ ḥrt w ṭrd m- ḥwrn h- ḫl s¹nt s¹l
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Translation: By ʾrʿh son of Wʿd was here and he spent the dry season in the ḥarra and he drove off (in a raid) the horses from the Ḥawrān the year (or time) of a flood
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Language and Script: Safaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: MST 9 n. 53: w qyẓ ḥrt w ṭrd m- ḥwrn h- ḫl -and he spent the dry season in [the] Ḥarra and he drove the horses from [the] Ḥawræn. MNH p. 314 n. 72 p. 341 and n. 244: w qyẓ ḥrt w ṭrd m- ḥwrn h- ḫl - and he spent the dry season in the ḥarra and he drove off (in a raid) the horses from the Ḥawræn; the marks read as s¹nt s¹l are probably not letters; p. 342: on raiding in Ḥawræn from the ḥarra.
Commentary: The author wrote a t at the end of the first name and then neatly scratched it over. This could be a sign of the beginnings of uncertainty as to how represent /tāʾ marbºṭa/ viz. by -t or by -h. Note also the /ḥwrn/ for the usual /ḥrn/ if this is what it is. There are definitely some very lightly scratched lines at the end of the text but whether they are letters reading s¹nt s¹l is somewhat doubtful.

[WH] Winnett, F.V. & Harding, G.L. Inscriptions from Fifty Safaitic Cairns. (Near and Middle East Series, 9). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1978.

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