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Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

Rsh 1

Siglum
Rsh 1
Transliteration
l hnʾ bn qḥf w bny h- mġrt
Translation
By Hnʾ son of Qḥf and he constructed the tomb-chamber

Interpretation

Commentary
On a lintel whose lower side is straight and whose upper side is an arc as if to fit an arched doorway.

Provenance
Found being reused as the lintel over the door of a house or store.
Original Reading Credit
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Original Translation Credit
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Technique
Chiselled

  • Sartre, M. Transhumance, économie et société de montagne en Syrie du sud. Cahiers de l'Université de Pau 23, 1992: 39-54.
  • Macdonald, M.C.A. Burial between the desert and the sown. Cave-tombs and inscriptions near Dayr al-Kahf in Jordan. Damaszener Mitteilungen 15, 2006 [2008]: 273-301.
Site
Rušaydah village, Al-Suwaydāʾ (al-Sweidah) Governorate, Syria
Current Location
Unknown
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0017851
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