HDNS 18
Text Information
- Siglum
- HDNS 18
- Transliteration
-
l yqdm bn mġṯ h- ḫṭṭ f h lt ʿwr ----
Harahsheh (2022)
- Translation
-
By yqdm son of mġṯ are these these carvings so O lt blindness ----
Harahsheh (2022)
- Language and Script
- Safaitic 2
Interpretation
- Commentary
-
----: The end of the text is not legible in the photo, However Harahsheh (2022) reads and traces it as l- ḏ yʿwr 'whoever effaces (this inscription)' which is the common cursing phrase.
Fahad Alsharif
- Editio Princeps
- Harahsheh 2022
- Field Collector
- R. Harahsheh
- Technique
- Incised
- Direction of Script
- Left to right
- Associated Drawings
- two camels; a man
- [HDNS] Harahsheh, R. Dirāsat nuqūš Ṣafāʾiyyah jadīdah min al-bādiyah al-ʾurdunniyyah al-šimāliyyah al-šarqiyyah (al-ḥarrah). Amman: Wizārat al-Ṯaqāfah, 2022.
- Site
- Wādī ʾumm ḫunayṣir, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Curse, Deity, Drawing, Drawing of a domestic animal, Genealogy, Prayer
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Updated
13 Nov, 2025
by
Fahad Alsharif
Cite this Site
(2022), Harahsheh and Fahad Alsharif. 'HDNS 18.' OCIANA. 13 Nov, 2025. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/45856. Accessed: 26 Jan, 2026.