WH 158
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 158
- Transliteration
- l bnṣrh bn rkb w ḥll m- nbṭ
- Translation
- By Bnṣrh son of Rkb and he camped on account of the Nabataeans
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- WH: translation of narrative "and he camped (returning) from the Nabataeans." SIAM I pp. 114-115: on the translation of m. MNBS p. 111 n. 66: on Knauf and references to nbṭ; w ḥll m- nbṭ - and he camped on account of the Nabataeans.
- Commentary
- WH point out that 'min' can be used in Arabic to mean 'on account of'; see Wright, Ar. Gr., Vol. II § 48c-d. WH's translation assumes that the verb 'returning' has been gapped, which is syntactically unlikely.
- Provenance
- Burquʿ
- Original Reading Credit
- Ed. pr.
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Chiselled
- 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
- #0010912
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