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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

WH 3799

Text Information

Siglum
WH 3799
Transliteration
l lġyn bn bḥgh
Translation
By Lġyn son of Bḥgh

Interpretation

Commentary
The text is incised in small thin letters to the left of WH 3798.

Provenance
WH Cairn 47 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
WH 3793–3798, 3799.1-3802

  • 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 47, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
Date Found
1958–1959
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0014768
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