WH 299.1
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 299.1
- Transliteration
- l ʿbd bn yʿll bn zʿm bn s¹ry
- Translation
- By ʿbd son of Yʿly son of Zʿm son of S¹ry
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- WH: yʿll for yʿly
- Commentary
- The final letter of the second name is clearly a y on the copy. Unfortunately, the letter cannot be made out on the photograph.
- 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
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Scratched
- Associated Signs
- randomly stretched lines in the center of the rock
- 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 9a, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 1958–1959
- Current Location
- in situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0011059
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