WH 166
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 166
- Transliteration
- l ʾtm bn ʿn bn ẓʿn w bny l- ʾḫ -h h- bly
- Translation
- By ʾtm son of ʿn son of Ẓʿn and he set up this Baliyya for his brother
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- WH: Translation of narrative "...he built this tomb for his brother"
- Commentary
- See the commentary of WH 163 for discussion.
- 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
- WH 163-165
- 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
- #0010920
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