WH 387
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 387
- Transliteration
- l ms¹k bn ʾbrqn w ṣyr s¹nt myt h- mlk
- Translation
- By Ms¹k son of ʾbrqn and he returned to a watering place the year that the king died
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- MNH p. 343: on s¹nt myt hmlk - the year [the king or] Hmlk died.
- Commentary
- or h- mlk. NB Caquot review of WH p. 336 ʾbrqn < brq "shine" cf. Palm N.Pr brwqʾ. NB Saf frequently has -n corresponding to Aramaic -ʾ.
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- 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
- #0011149
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