WH 290
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 290
- Transliteration
- l lbʾ bn ʿbd bn ngyt w tẓr s²nʾ ġzz
- Translation
- By Lbʾ son of ʿbd son of Ngyt and he lay in wait for raiding enemies
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- WH: translation of narrative "and he was on the look-out for enemies [and] he was in a fight(?)"
- Commentary
- Given the absence of a conjunction, ġzz is more likely an adjective in a broken plural construction. There is no way to be sure what the internal vowel melody was, but perhaps one can compare it to Classical Arabic fiʿāl or Egyptian Arabic fuʿāl measures.
- Provenance
- WH Cairn 9A and this inscription were rediscovered and photographed by the Badia Epigraphic Survey in 2018 and the co-ordinates given are exact.
- Original Reading Credit
- Ed. pr.
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Copy only
- Associated Signs
- cartouche with seven intersecting lines on the left edge and ten intersecting lines on the bottom
- Associated Drawings
- sun-disk
- 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 9A, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 1958–1959
- Current Location
- in situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0011050
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