WH 163

Siglum
WH 163
Transliteration
l mrt bn ʿn bn ẓʿn ḏ- ʾl ʿwḏ h- bly
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Translation
This Baliyya is of Mrt son of ʿn son of Ẓʿn of the lineage of ʿwḏ
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Language and Script
Safaitic

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.

Editio Princeps
Ed. pr.

Technique
Incised
Direction of Script
Horizontal line left to right

Associated Remains
Cairn
Associated Inscriptions

  • [WH] 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
Old OCIANA ID
#0010917
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