WH 3807

Siglum: WH 3807
Transliteration: l dʾ(y) bn bs¹ʾ bn ʾs¹d bn gmr bn ʾḥs¹n bn ḥbk
Translation: By {Dʾy} son of Bs¹ʾ son of ʾs¹d son of Gmr son of ʾḥs¹n son of Ḥbk

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: WH: l dʾl bn bs¹ʾ bn ʾs¹d bn gmr bn ʿmq bn gmr
Commentary: This text was published ‘WH 3807 a’. WH have taken no account of the relative positions of the texts on the rock nor of the diferences in technique which characterise them. WH 3807 (‘a’) is lightly scratched and after the fourth bn crosses a break in the rock. The last two names of this text are separated from the other texts on this second piece of rock by a thickly hammered enclosing-line. WH read two of the names (ʾmq bn gmr) from 3809 as the end of 3807 (‘a’) despite the fact that they are incised rather than scratched and are not aligned with the rest of 3807 (‘a’). They then combined the last two names of 3807 (‘a’) (ʾḥs¹n bn ḥbk) with the end of 3809 (bn ḥbk bn ʾmt bn ʾḥs¹n) to make a new text ʿ3807bʾ. See the commentary to WH 3809.

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

Winnett, F.V. & Harding, G.L. Inscriptions from Fifty Safaitic Cairns. (Near and Middle East Series, 9). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1978.