WH 3909
Text Information
- Siglum
- WH 3909
- Transliteration
- l ks²dy bn nybt
- Translation
- By Ks²dy son of Nybt
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- WH reads this with WH 3908 as l ks²dy bn lḥ
- Commentary
- WH 3908 and 3909 were written by brothers who used the close similarity of their names to write a joint inscription in which they shared the last two letters of their names plus the bn and their father's name (bn nybt). Ks²dy is well known in Safaitic. It is a common custom among the Bedouin today to give their children rhyming or closely similar names, as here.
- 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.
- Site
- Ǧabal Qarmah, WH Cairn 50, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 1958–1959
- Current Location
- In situ
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0051575
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