WH 155
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 155
- Transliteration
- l ʾdm bn ḫrʿt w tẓr s²nʾ
- Translation
- By ʾdm son of H̲rʿt and he was lying in wait for enemies
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- WH: translation of nẓr "he was on the look-out"
- Commentary
- It is probably best to connect tẓr with Arabic intaẓara "he waited", and translate nẓr as 'he was on the look-out'.
- Provenance
- Burquʿ
- Original Reading Credit
- Ed. pr.
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Scraped
- Associated Remains
- Cairn
- 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 7, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 1958–1959
- Current Location
- in situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0010909
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