WH 179

Siglum
WH 179
Transliteration
l ndʾ bn ḏl bn rbn w ġzz b- ḥrt tbl h- bkrt m- mʿn
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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
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Language and Script
Safaitic

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.

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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
Amman Museum J. (14168)
Subject
Genealogy
Old OCIANA ID
#0010933
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