Siglum: WH 1849  Script: Safaitic

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Transliteration
l whblh bn ẓnʾl bn whblh bn mlk w bny l- hnʾ h- s¹trt w qṣṣ frs¹ h- ms¹ty s¹nt bḫr ʾl ḍf f h lt s¹lm w ʿwd b- h- ms¹rt mʾt frs¹

Translation
By Whblh son of Ẓnʾl son of Whblh son of Mlk and he built the shelter for Hnʾ and he tracked a horseman to the MS¹TY the year the tribe of Ḍf was cut to pieces. And, Lt [grant] security and there returned into the camp a hundred horses

Apparatus Criticus
MNH p. 347: on Greek inscription; n. 288: might be the father of the author in WH 1861.

Commentary
A study of the original stone shows that the fourth name is mlk (rather than mll as read by WH) and indeed it is shown as such on WH's facsimile (Pl. 70). The word bḫr is new. WH read it as btr but this is impossible since the text is very carefully written with the height of the letters maintained at a constant level and a clear distinction preserved between signs of the same form but different sizes (g/ʿ l/n ḫ/t). The letter in question is far larger than any of the t's in the inscription and can only be a ḫ. The meaning however is obscure.

Subjects
Genealogy

Country: Jordan
Region: Al-Mafraq Governorate
Site number: 0
Present Location: Amman Museum J. (14186)
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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