WH 179
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 179
- Transliteration
- l ndʾ bn ḏl bn rbn w ġzz b- ḥrt tbl h- bkrt m- mʿn
- Translation
- By Ndʾ son of Ḏl son of Rbn and he went on a raid in the Ḥrt to bring (back) the young she-camel(s) from Mʿn
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- WH: "He fought against ḤRT in revenge for the she-camel [taken] from Maʿn
- Commentary
- WH connect tbl with Arabic tabl 'vengeance', but ṯʾr or qṣṣ are more frequent in Safaitic. Tbl should instead be connected to the Akkadian verb wabālum 'to bring, carry'. It is presumably the infinitive of the D-stem, wabbala > tawbīl. The word ʾibil 'dromedary' might be derived in some way from this root. WH take Ḥrt as the name of a tribe on the basis of its appearance with a nisba ending in WH 424, but the nisba ending could equally suggest that it is a toponym.
- Provenance
- Burquʿ
- 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.
- Site
- WH Cairn 7, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 1958–1959
- Current Location
- Amman Museum J. (14168)
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0010933
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