WH 239
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 239
- Transliteration
- l {b}hln bn s¹ʿd bn ḥmy bn s²bh w wgd s¹fr ʾb -h f ngʿ
- Translation
- By {Bhln} son of Sʿd son of Ḥmy son of S²bh and he found the inscription of his father so he suffered
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- WH: bhln for {b}hln; WH emend 4th name to s²by on the basis of WH 495
- Provenance
- Burquʿ
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Copy only
- 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.
- Site
- WH Cairn 7, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 1958–1959
- Current Location
- in situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0010997
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