WH 245
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 245
- Transliteration
- l ḥḍ h- mnẓr
- Translation
- The look-out belongs to Ḥḍ
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- WH: mẓr for mnẓr
- Commentary
- In this inscription, as in WH 244, many of the letters are joined. See Macdonald 1989: 67, 75, 81, and the tracing here. The n, which WH does not read, is joined to the two arms of the ẓ.
- Provenance
- Burquʿ
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- Ed. pr.
- Technique
- Chiselled
- Associated Signs
- Cartouche
- 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.
- Macdonald, M.C.A. Cursive Safaitic Inscriptions? A Preliminary Investigation. Pages 62-81 in M.M. Ibrahim (ed.), Arabian Studies in Honour of Mahmoud Ghul: Symposium at Yarmouk University December 8-11, 1984. (Yarmouk University Publications: Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology Series, 2). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1989.
- Site
- WH Cairn 7, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 1958–1959
- Current Location
- in situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0011003
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