WH 240
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 240
- Transliteration
- l ẓʿn bn ʾtnm w bny
- Translation
- By Ẓʿn son of ʾtnm and he built
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- WH: ʾtm for ʾtnm
- Commentary
- The photograph shows a clear n between the t and m of the second name.
- Provenance
- WH Cairn 7 and this inscription were rediscovered and photographed by the Badia Epigraphic Survey in 2018 and the co-ordinates given are exact.
- 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
- #0010998
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