WH 3923

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: WH tentatively read: l bdr [?] {b}{n} ʿwḏ dṯ{ʾ} h ---- "By Bdr [?] son of ʿwḏ. He spent the spring at ----"
Commentary: This is one of a number of inscriptions in which the letters have been joined, see Macdonald 1989: 65–66, 73, 79 (from which the explanatory tracing 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: MCS p. 65-66

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.