WH 3902

Interpretation

Commentary: WH read this text as the continuation of 3901. However it is clear from the photograph that they are two separate inscriptions The beginning of 3902 is obscured by a patch of abrasion and the letters of the first name are therefore very faint and the reading is not entirely certain. There is a line above the third letter of the name which in some lights make it look like a s² but on the rock when it was copied this looked like an extraneous mark above a b. Similarly on some photographs the final letter of the first name looks like a k or a h, whereas on the rock it appeared as a clear t.

Provenance: WH worked from photographs taken by Mr Barry Park in 1955 who gave them to Gerald Lankester Harding. Unfortunately, these have since disappeared, and the photographs here were taken during a survey of Jabal Qurma and Tell Farah by Michael C.A. Macdonald, Geraldine King, Ann Searight and David Jacobson in 1982.
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.
Ḥasan, Y.F.Y Nuqūš ṣafawiyyah min ǧabal qarmah (dirāsah taḥlīliyyah). Unpublished MA thesis, Yarmouk University. 2001.