WH 3617
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 3617
- Transliteration
- l mlk bn ʿbs¹ h- bkrt
- Translation
- By Mlk son of ʿbs¹ is the young she-camel
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- WH: l mlk bn ʿb{d} [?]
- Commentary
- WH read the second name as ʿb{d} but the last letter is clearly s¹ on the photographs. It is followed by a dot which seems to be extraneous to the text. Although h- bkrt appears on WH's facsimile (pl. 63) it is not included in their reading. Note the angular forms of the b, k, and s¹ in the genealogy and the curved forms of b, k, and r in h-bkrt.
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Associated Drawings
- A large she-camel with hairy hump and a smaller one at right angles to her so that their faces are touching
- 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.
- Site
- WH Cairn 46, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 1958–1959
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0014576
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