WH 3611
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 3611
- Transliteration
- l dʾy bn ḥr {b}{n} gs² bn ʾlḥn
- Translation
- By Dʾy son of Ḥr {son of} Gs² son of ʾlḥn
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- WH 3611 a: l dʾy bn ḥr{s¹}; 3611 b: gs² ẓnʾl ḥl "The troop of Ẓnʾl camped [here]"
- Commentary
- WH divide this into two texts (WH 3611 a and b) but the reading offered here seems more probable, especially in view of WH 3611.1 (which was not read by WH).
- 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 Drawings
- An ostrich on the same stone and six ostriches on an adjoining stone
- Associated Inscriptions
- WH 3609–3610, 3611.1
- 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
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0014569
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