WH 3420
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 3420
- Transliteration
- l ʿḏ bn ʾs¹ ḏ- ʾl ṣbḥ w l- -h [h-] rgm
- Translation
- By ʿḏ son of ʾs¹ of the lineage of Ṣbḥ and for him is [the] cairn
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- WH: l ʿrm bn hb for l ʿḏ bn ʾs¹
- Commentary
- Note the Hismaic forms of the ḏ. As is very common, the 3rd person masculine singular enclitic pronoun has assimilated the following definite article, thus l-h-rgm for *l-h h-rgm. See Macdonald 2004: 507, § 7.
- Provenance
- WH Cairn 46 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.
- Macdonald, M.C.A. Ancient North Arabian. Pages 488-533 in R.D. Woodard (ed.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
- Site
- WH Cairn 46, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 1958–1959
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Funerary, Genealogy, Lineage, Structure
- Script
- Mixed Safaitic/Hismaic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0014358
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