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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

WH 3760

Siglum
WH 3760
Transliteration
l grdn bn frʾ bn gll h- gml
Translation
By Grdn son of Frʾ son of Gll is the male camel

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
WH: ʿnn in transliteration but "GNN" in translation for gll.

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 Drawings
A male camel, outlined and partially filled in, beside the inscription. Two other camels crudely and lightly outlined on the other side of the text.

  • 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
Drawing of a domestic animal, Genealogy
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0014725
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