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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

WH 137.1

Text Information

Siglum
WH 137.1
Transliteration
l b{s¹}ʾ bn gfʾ bn m
Translation
By Bs¹ʾ son of Gfʾ son of M

Interpretation

Commentary
WH take this and WH 137.2 and 138.1 138.2 138.3 to be later attempts to immitate Safaitic

Provenance
Burquʿ
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Direct hammered

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
Cairn 2, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
Date Found
1958–1959
Current Location
in situ
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0010886
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