WH 3905

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: WH: ʾbyṯ for ʾbyṯʿ
Commentary: The text has been very thoroughly obscured by ligatures and hammering and only the first and the last two letters are certain What may be the ʿ of the first name can be seen between the ṯ and the b, though this may simply be a ligature. It seems that the two arms of the b have been joined and a line hammered between it and the following n. There seems to be another area of hammering between the n and the f. The latter could also be a s².

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.