WH 402
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 402
- Transliteration
- l mʿn bn ḫrg h- bkrtn w tẓr dṯʾ wḥd w nʿm b- ḥrn
- Translation
- By Mʿn son of Ḫrg are the two young she-camels and he was waiting by himself for the season of the later rains and may he lead an easy life in the Ḥawrān
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- WH: w tẓr dṯʾ wḥd ʿl- ʿm b-ḥrn "He was on the look-out for spring pasture. Ande he mourned for a grandfather in(the_ Ḥaurān"; MNH pp. 340-341: w tẓr dṯʾ w ḥd w h ʿm b- ḥrn - and he was waiting for the later rains but they did not come and ---- in the Ḥawrān.
- Commentary
- For nʿm "to lead an easy life" compare Classical Arabic naʿama "to lead an easy life (Hava 783), used here with an optative implication.
- 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.
- Macdonald, M.C.A. Nomads and the Ḥawrān in the late Hellenistic and Roman periods: A reassessment of the epigraphic evidence. Syria 70, 1993: 303-413. [Reprinted with the same pagination, plus addenda and corrigenda as Article II in M.C.A. Macdonald, Literacy and Identity in Pre-Islamic Arabia, (Variorum Collected Studies Series no. 906), Farnham: Ashgate, 2009].
- Hava, J.G. Al-Faraid Arabic-English Dictionary. Fifth edition. Beirut: Dār al-Mašriq, 1982.
- Site
- WH Cairn 9A, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 1958–1959
- Current Location
- Rockfeller Museum
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0011167
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