WH 3685
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 3685
- Transliteration
- l ʾṯʿ bn ʿḏr w s²m ḥrn
- Translation
- By ʾṯʿ son of ʿḏr and he drew near to the Ḥawrān
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- WH 3685: ns²m ḥbn "a monkey [or: a boil] stinks" for s²m ḥrn "he drew near to the Ḥawrān"
- Commentary
- The mark immediately after the w, which WH took as a n, is much thinner than the other letters and we suggest that it is extraneous to the text. Our interpretation of s²m ḥrn is purely a suggestion. Compare Arabic šāmmā "to draw near" (to a person, ultimately derived from "he smelt someone"). This is not ideal but it is the best we can offer at present.
- 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.
- Site
- WH Cairn 46, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 1958–1959
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Genealogy, Movement, Place-name
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0014646
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