OCIANA
Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

WH 181

Text Information

Siglum
WH 181
Transliteration
l ʾnʿm bn mġny bn wḥs² w wgm ʿl- mṭr w ʿl- dh{n} trḥn w dṯʾ h- ms¹nn f h lt s¹lm w nqʾt b- ṣdq l- ḏ yḫbl h- ḫṭṭ
Translation
By ʾnʿm son of Mġny son of Wḥs² and he grieved for Mṭr and {Dhn} who have died and he spent the season of the later rains at h-Ms¹nn so O Lt [grant] security and [inflict] ejection from the grave by a friend on him who damages this carving

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
WH: w ʿl ṣhlt rḥl "and for Ṣhlt who have departed" for w ʿl ʾhl trḥn
Commentary
WH misread ʾ as ṣ. The final letter of trḥ_ is about half the length of the /l/'s in this inscription and should be read as /n/.

Provenance
Burquʿ
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Scratched

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
in situ
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0010935
Download Images