HFSL 1

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HFSL 1
Transliteration
l mqm bn {g}----{w} ḏ- ʾl gḥr {w} {t}s²wq ʾl- ʾḫt -h f h lt s¹lm w qbll ʿg{l} w ḫm---- {h}----w ʾʿḏh bn ʾlhf
Harding 1975
Translation
By Mqm son of {G}-----{w} of the lineage of Gḥr {and} {he longed} for his sister and so O Lt [grant] security and a hasty reunion w ḫm---- {h}----w ʾʿḏh bn ʾlhf
Al-Jallad (OCIANA)
Language and Script
Safaitic 3

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus

HFSL 1 Trans. w qbl l- ʿgl (or ʿgn) 'and he drew near to ʿgl (or ʿgn);' w ʾʿḏ hbn (or s¹bn) ʾl hf 'and Hbn or Sbn was commended to the protection of god because of starvation' 

Commentary

See Macdonald 1993 on the significance of the provenance of this text.

Al-Jallad (OCIANA)

Editio Princeps
Harding 1975
Field Collector
Chaker Ghadbân

Technique
Chiselled
Direction of Script
Curving/coil

Associated Inscriptions

  • [HFSL] Harding, G.L. Further Safaitic Texts from Lebanon. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 20, 1975: 99-102, pls 35-36.
  • [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
Qubūr al-Aʿǧām, Al-Rahweh plateau , ʿArsāl, Lebanon
Date Found
1970
Current Location
Uncertain
Subjects
Genealogy, Lineage, Yearning
Old OCIANA ID
#0026012
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Updated 26 Mar, 2025 by Ahmad Al-Jallad

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(OCIANA), Al-Jallad and Harding 1975. 'HFSL 1.' OCIANA. 26 Mar, 2025. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/17390. Accessed: 29 Aug, 2025.