WH 163
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 163
- Transliteration
- l mrt bn ʿn bn ẓʿn ḏ- ʾl ʿwḏ h- bly
- Translation
- This Baliyya is of Mrt son of ʿn son of Ẓʿn of the lineage of ʿwḏ
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- WH: translation of bly "tomb"
- Commentary
- A "baliyya" was a particular form of grave where the deceased's camel was trussed and/or hamstrung and left to die either beside the grave or in a pit next to it, to provide the dead man with a suitable mount in the afterlife. Such graves have been found in southern Jordan (where a Nabataean inscription actually specifies that it was a baliyya) and in eastern Arabia. [MCAM] See WH 165, 166 and 2976.
- Provenance
- WH Cairn 7 and this inscription were rediscovered and photographed by the Badia Epigraphic Survey in 2018 and the co-ordinates given are exact.
- Original Reading Credit
- Ed. pr.
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Incised
- Associated Remains
- Cairn
- Associated Inscriptions
- 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
- #0010917
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