WH 3916

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: WH: l ḥrṯ bn ḥbq bn gl for l ḥ{{l}}{{y}} {{b}}{{n}} {{ḥ}}b{q} b{{n}} {g}{y}
Commentary: Several letters have been tampered with. It looks as though the second and third letters of the first name have been changed from l y into r ṯ. The b's of both bns have been made to look like s¹s and the b and n of the first bn have been joined together while the n of the second has been turned into a t. The q has been almost entirely obliterated while the last two letters seem to have been turned from g y into w d.

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

Associated Signs

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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.