JSSaf 1

Siglum
JSSaf 1
Transliteration
l ḥnʾl bn ḥg{y}
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Translation
By Ḥnʾl son of {Ḥgy}
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Language and Script
Hismaic

Interpretation

Commentary
The inscription is shown in Jaussen & Savignac 1909–1922, i: 104, fig. 65, but was not read there. It was first read in Macdonald 1993: 304 n. 4 and cited as an example of a Safaitic text found in the area of Madāin Ṣāliḥ.

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Ed. pr.

  • [JSTham] Jaussen, A. & Savignac, M.R. Mission archéologique en Arabie. I. (Mars-Mai 1907) De Jérusalem au Hedjaz, Médain Saleh. II. El-ʿEla, d'Hégra à Teima Harrah de Tebouk. Texte et Atlas. III. Les châteaux arabes de Quṣeir ʿAmra, Ḫarâneh, et Tûba. (5 volumes). (Publications de la Société Française des Fouilles Archéologiques, 2). [Reprinted Cairo: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1997]. Paris: Leroux/Geuthner, 1909–1920. Vol. I pp 104, fig. 65
  • [MNH] Macdonald, M.C.A. Nomads and the Ḥawrān in the late Hellenistic and Roman periods: A reassessment of the epigraphic evidence. Syria 70, 1993: 303-413. [Reprinted with the same pagination, plus addenda and corrigenda as Article II in M.C.A. Macdonald, Literacy and Identity in Pre-Islamic Arabia, (Variorum Collected Studies Series no. 906), Farnham: Ashgate, 2009].
Site
Madāʾin Ṣāliḥ, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Old OCIANA ID
#0030050
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