WH 270
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 270
- Transliteration
- l s¹krn bn ḥ{n}{n}ʾ h- m{ẓ}r
- Translation
- By S¹krn son of {Ḥnnʾ} at the look-out
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- WH: ḥnnh for ḥ{n}{n}ʾ; translation of inscription "the look-out belongs to S¹krn son of Ḥnnh"
- Commentary
- The two n's are conjoined and there appears to be an intersecting vertical bar on the bottom half, making the pair look rather like an incomplete ṭ.
- Provenance
- Burquʿ
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Scratched & scraped
- 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
- #0011029
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