WH 159
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 159
- Transliteration
- l wd bn ytm bn wd bn ytm w rʿy h- mʿzy f h lt s¹lm w wqyt m- bʾs¹
- Translation
- By Wd son of Ytm son of Wd son of Ytm and he pastured goats so O Lt [grant] security and protection from harm
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- MNH p. 320 and n. 117: on pasturing goats on edge of ḥarra/ḥamād border.
- 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
- #0010913
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