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
OCIANA
- 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
OCIANA
- Language and Script
- Safaitic
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/.
- Editio Princeps
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Scratched
- Direction of Script
- Boustrophedon (starting from left)
- 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
- in situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0010935
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Updated
16 Sep, 2024
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OCIANA. 'WH 181.' OCIANA. 16 Sep, 2024. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/33407. Accessed: 15 Jun, 2025.