WH 3912
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 3912
- Transliteration
- l {{ʿ}}{{s¹}}{{l}}{{y}} b{{n}} {{n}}{{n}} {{b}}{{n}} {{n}}{{b}}{{q}} h- s¹{{ḥ}}{{l}}{{y}} {{w}} {{h-}} {{n}}{{q}}tn
- Translation
- By {S¹ly} {son of} {Nn} {son of} {Nbq} the{ S¹ḥlite} {and} {these} {two} {she-camels}.
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- WH 3912.1: l s¹ry bn nn bn bq{ʾ} WH 3912.2: s¹ḥly gh{d}t
- Commentary
- The letters of the inscription have been joined, see Macdonald 1989: 66–67, 74, 80 (from which the explanatory tracing shown here is taken).
- 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.
- Macdonald, M.C.A. Cursive Safaitic Inscriptions? A Preliminary Investigation. Pages 62-81 in M.M. Ibrahim (ed.), Arabian Studies in Honour of Mahmoud Ghul: Symposium at Yarmouk University December 8-11, 1984. (Yarmouk University Publications: Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology Series, 2). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1989.
- Site
- Ǧabal Qarmah, WH Cairn 50, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 1958–1959
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0014883
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