WH 3598

Siglum: WH 3598
Transliteration: {f} t {b} z ḫ d q ḏ h n ʾ ṣ m {ẓ} s¹ g ṭ w ʿ ḥ s² r l k ṯ y ḍ ġ
Translation: {f} t {b} z ḫ d q ḏ h n ʾ ṣ m {ẓ} s¹ g ṭ w ʿ ḥ s² r l k ṯ y ḍ ġ

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: WH: 3596 a: h ḏs²r lkṯ ḍġm "O Ḏs²r strike Ḍġm" WH 3598 a: ----{ṣ}{ʾ}nhḏqdḫ{z}wtm{l}{h}{ʾ} WH 3598 b: mbs¹{.}gṭw----
Commentary: This was originally published as WH 3598 a and b and 3596 a. The first two sections of the text are incised in very small thin letters between the last four letters of WH 3597 and the beginning of the text which has been completely hammered over. The final section is in larger letters between the edge of the cartouche around the text which has been hammered over and the edge of the face. This section seems to be introduced by an inverted "T". It would appear to be a list of the letters of the Safaitic alphabet. The identification of some of letters is uncertain as is shown in the transliteration. For Safaitic alphabets see Macdonald 2005: 86–87. See also MaSA, MISS.A 2, RWQ 67, and KRS 1685.

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

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. Literacy in an Oral Environment. Pages 49-118 in P. Bienkowski, C.B. Mee & E.A. Slater (eds), Writing and Ancient Near Eastern Society. Papers in Honour of Alan R. Millard. (Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, 426). New York / London: T. & T. Clark Library of Biblical Studies, 2005. [Reprinted with the same pagination, plus addenda and corrigenda, as Article I in Macdonald, M.C.A., Literacy and Identity in Pre-Islamic Arabia. (Variorum Collected Studies, 906). Farnham: Ashgate, 2009.]