WH 3820

Siglum
WH 3820
Transliteration
l qymt bn mrʾhʿzy
OCIANA
Translation
By Qymt son of Mrʾhʿzy
OCIANA
Language and Script
Safaitic

Interpretation

Commentary

This author carved a number of inscriptions (WH 621, 627, 1777, 3820, Jawa76M 11). In 621 and 627 his father's name is spelt mrʾʿzy, while in WH 1777, 3820 and Jawa76M 11 it is spelt more correctly as mrʾ-hʿzy See WH's commentary on tWH 621 and Macdonald 1993: 348 n. 288: on names with ʿzy in Safaitic and Nabataean.

Editio Princeps
Ed. pr.

Technique
chiselled
Direction of Script
right to left

  • [MNH] Macdonald, M.C.A. Nomads and the Ḥawrān in the late Hellenistic and Roman periods: A reassessment of the epigraphic evidence. Syria 70, 1993: 303-413. [Reprinted with the same pagination, plus addenda and corrigenda as Article II in M.C.A. Macdonald, Literacy and Identity in Pre-Islamic Arabia, (Variorum Collected Studies Series no. 906), Farnham: Ashgate, 2009].
  • [WH] 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
Old OCIANA ID
#0014791
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Macdonald, Michael. 'WH 3820.' OCIANA. 25 Apr, 2025. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/33278. Accessed: 17 Jun, 2025.