HFSL 1

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Siglum
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.

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