WH 3605
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 3605
- Transliteration
- l mlkt bn s¹rk w ġnm m- rhy
- Translation
- By Mlkt son of S¹rk and he carried off booty from Rhy
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- WH: rhy "the Edessenes (?)"
- Commentary
- There is a wasm (?) immediately before the lām auctoris in the same technique and with the same patination as the genealogy. The narrative is incised within the curve of the genealogy. Following the final y a large k has been carved in the same technique.
- 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
- Ed. pr.
- Associated Inscriptions
- WH 3603–3604
- 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 46, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 1958–1959
- Current Location
- IN situ
- Subjects
- Genealogy, Outside peoples, Raiding
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0014563
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