WH 156
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 156
- Transliteration
- l nhb bn ṭys²t bn bdn w rʿy mʿnq h- ʾf
- Translation
- By Nhb son of Ṭys²t son of Bdn and he pastured on the high ground of new growth
Interpretation
- Commentary
- NAEN I p. 39 n. 63: ʾf - first growth of herbage. WH connect mʿnq to Arabic maʿāniq, plural of miʿnaqah "hill in front of a tract of sand" or muʿniq "hard and elevated ground".
- Provenance
- Burquʿ
- Original Reading Credit
- Ed. pr.
- Original Translation Credit
- Ed. pr.
- Technique
- Copy only
- 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
- #0010910
- Download Image