Siglum: WH 1141  Script: Safaitic

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Transliteration
l ẓnʾl bn ʾbʾns¹ bn ẓnʾl ḏ- ʾl s¹ʿdʾl w s¹rt s¹mʿ ʾn ʿm -h

Translation
By Ẓnʾl son of ʾbʾns¹ son of Ẓnʾl of the tribe of S¹ʿdʾl and he served in a military unit and he heard that his grandfather

Commentary
NB the statement is written with the letters on their sides above the genealogy. The end of the text is obscured on the photograph by the photo number. NB Trimingham 1979: 143 "sammāʿ" ("hearers") was the Manichaean technical term for the novices as opposed to ṣidd¡qºn the initiates.

Subjects
Genealogy

Country: Jordan
Region: Al-Mafraq Governorate
Site: WH Cairn 15
Latitude: 32.658108
Longitude: 37.879187
Present Location: In situ
Find date: 1958–1959
Field collector: F.V. Winnett & G.L. Harding

References:
[WH] Winnett, F.V. & Harding, G.L. Inscriptions from Fifty Safaitic Cairns. (Near and Middle East Series, 9). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1978.

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