WH 163

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

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.