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AbSWS 70

Text Information

Siglum
AbSWS 70
Alternative Sigla
HAMM 1
Transliteration
.... l bn mfny bn qdm bn mfny h- tll
Translation
....l son of Mfny son of Qdm son of Mfny are the words

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
This Hill is for Mfny son of Qdm son of Mfny HCH: h- tll "the riding camel". Littmann quoted in commentary: htll "the tied and driven beast". RyMA p. 123: tll "ostrich". MNH p. 328 n. 159: on hunting scenes in drawings.

Original Reading Credit
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Original Translation Credit
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Technique
Incised

Associated Remains
Cairn 3
Associated Inscriptions

  • Harding, G.L. The Cairn of Haniʾ. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 2, 1953: 8-56, pls 1-7.
  • ʿAbbādī [Abbadi], Ṣ. Nuqūš ṣafawiyyah min wādī salmā (al-bādiyah al-urduniyah). Amman: Badia Research and Development Center, 2006.
  • Al-Ḥuṣān [Al-Housan], ʿA. A selection of Safaitic inscriptions from the Mafraq Antiquities Office and Museum. Arabian Epigraphic Notes 1, 2015: 77-102.
Site
Wādī Salmā, Jordan
Current Location
Al-Mafraq Antiquities Office and Museum
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0030523
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