WH 271
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 271
- Transliteration
- l ns²wn bn ʾrs¹k w nẓr
- Translation
- By Ns²wn son of ʾrs¹k and he was on the look-out
Interpretation
- Commentary
- The name is scratched while the narrative is chiseled. There is a circle and then a half circle under the k, which may have been original mis-spaced attempts at writing the w which follows it.
- Provenance
- Burquʿ
- Original Reading Credit
- Ed. pr.
- Original Translation Credit
- Ed. pr.
- Name Distinguished
- Scratched/chiselled
- Technique
- Chiselled & 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
- #0011030
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