WH 622
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 622
- Transliteration
- l ġ{ḍ}n bn ʿwḏ bn s¹lm w qyẓ brkt w t[[]]ḫwf h lt s¹lm ḥrb f ṣ{r}{ṭ} ds²{r}
- Translation
- By Ġḍn son of ʿwḏ son of S¹lm and he spent the dry season at Brkt and little by little he was impoverished and O Lt [grant] security.
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- MST p. 9: w qyẓ brkt w tḫ{w}f - and he spent the dry season at Brkt and little by little he was impoverished; n. 47: this should be read as a separate text from WH 622 [i.e. from what has been read by the SD as WH 623]
- Provenance
- WH Cairn 9B 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
- 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. The Seasons and Transhumance in the Safaitic Inscriptions. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland 3rd. series, 2, 1992: 1-11.
- Site
- WH Cairn 9B, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 1958–1959
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0011404
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