WH 3791
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 3791
- Transliteration
- l b{n}kbr bn mḥnn w ns²ṭ l- m{ʿ}wl -h h- ʿr
- Translation
- By {Bnkbr} son of Mḥnn and he journeyed l- mʿwl -h the hybrid
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- WH: w ns²ṭ----
- Commentary
- WH's photographs did not show the part of the inscription after ns²ṭ clearly enough to read. It is uncertain what l-m{ʿ}wl-h means. For the interpretation of ʿr as a hybrid (i.e. a mule or hinny) see Macdonald 2019: 157–165.
- 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 Signs
- A stick-figure human above 7 small circles
- Associated Drawings
- An equid, possibly a hinny (father an ass mother a horse)
- 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.
- Macdonald, M.C.A. Horses, asses, hybrids, and their uses in the ancient rock-art of the Syro-Arabian desert. in K. Linduff & P. Raulwing (eds), Equids in the Ancient Near East, Egypt, and Arabia. Proceedings of a conference in memory of Mary Aitken Littauer. Oxford: BAR, 2019.
- Site
- WH Cairn 46, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 1958–1959
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Drawing of a domestic animal, Genealogy, Movement
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0014757
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