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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

WH 3811

Siglum
WH 3811
Transliteration
l ʿmdn bn ʾrfz h- bkr
Translation
By ʿmdn son of ʾrfz is the young male camel

Interpretation

Commentary
The text and the drawing are chiselled.

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
Ed. pr.

Associated Drawings
A male camel

  • 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
Subjects
Drawing of a domestic animal, Genealogy
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0014782
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