WH 171
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 171
- Transliteration
- l rʿly bn ḥṯmt w rʿy ḫfg
- Translation
- By Rʿly son of Ḥṯmt and he pastured on ḫfg
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- WH: Translation of ḫfg as "[the ḥarrah of] H̲FG"
- Commentary
- H̲fg occurs here and in ISB 113 and KRS 1836. A member of the Ahl al-Jabal, who inhabit the ḥarrah of southern Syria and north-eastern Jordan, identified a plant of the ḥarrah shown him by Geraldine King as ḫafaǧ. Dr. Sue Colledge later identified it from a photograph as Diplotaxis Harra. The verb rʿy takes a direct object in Safaitic regardless of whether the latter refers to the food or the place.
- Provenance
- Burquʿ
- Original Reading Credit
- Ed. pr.
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Scratched
- 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.
- Oxtoby, W.G. Some Inscriptions of the Safaitic Bedouin. (American Oriental Series, 50). New Haven, CT: American Oriental Society, 1968.
- Site
- WH Cairn 7, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 1958–1959
- Current Location
- in situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0010925
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