OCIANA
Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

WH 3812

Siglum
WH 3812
Transliteration
l nml bn zd bn hʾby bn ḫld h- dr
Translation
Nml son of Zd son of Hʾby son of Ḫld was here

Interpretation

Commentary
The second letter (n) looks as though it has a horizontal stroke at the top, but close examination shows that this is in a quite different technique to the letters and is almost certainly extraneous.

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

  • 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
Genealogy, Present in a place
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0014783
Download Images