WH 168
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 168
- Transliteration
-
l ḥṣṣ bn bnṣrh bn rkb ġnm m- bṭ
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- Translation
-
By Ḥṣṣ son of Bnṣrh son of Rkb. He carried off booty from {the Nabataeans}
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- Language and Script
- Safaitic
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- MNBS p. 111 n. 66: on Knauf and references to nbṭ.
- Commentary
- WH suggest that bṭ is an error for mnbṭ, which occurs in WH 158. Otherwise, bṭ must be interpreted as a tribe or place name.
- Editio Princeps
- Ed. pr.
- Technique
- Copy only
- Direction of Script
- Boustrophedon (starting from right)
- Associated Signs
- a line intersecting two diamonds on the top and one diamond on the bottom end (also occurs with a Thamudic inscription (see van den Branden, Les textes thamoudéens de Philby, II 348).
- Associated Remains
- Cairn
- [WH] Winnett, F.V. & Harding, G.L. Inscriptions from Fifty Safaitic Cairns. (Near and Middle East Series, 9). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1978.
- Site
- Wādī al-Ġuṣayn Cairn 7, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 1958–1959
- Current Location
- in situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0010922
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