HaNSB 200

Siglum: HaNSB 200
Alternative Sigla: HaNS 200
Transliteration: l hnʾ bn ẓnnʾl bn ʾḥlm bn rbn bn mnʾl w ḫyṭ s¹nt ngy h- rwḥn f h lt s¹lm
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Translation: By Hnʾ son of Ẓnnʾl son of ʾḥlm son of Rbn son of Mnʾl and he journeyed without stopping the year the Rwḥ-ites escaped and so O Lt [grant] security
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Language and Script: Safaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: HaNSB 200: translation "h- rwḥn" "the herds" (al-qiṭʿān).
Commentary: Rwḥ is an attested lineage (e.g. WAMS 5; C 5162 (=LP 1269 from the ancient town of Umm al-Jimāl) and an ʾl rwḥw in the Nabataean inscription LPNab 43 (from the same place), and the man who commissioned an inscription in Palmyrene (CIS ii 3973) in AD 132 [i.e. 26 years after the end of the Nabataean kingdom] who describes himself as nbṭyʾ rwḥyʾ "the Nabataean, the Rwḥite" and the common dating formula is usually s¹nt ngy X, where X = a PN. The final n should be interpreted as either a sound plural *ha-rawiḥ[īn,ūn] or a dual *ha-rawiḥ[ān/ayn].

[HaNS] Ḥarāḥšah [Harahsheh], R.M.A. Nuqūš ṣafāʾīyah ǧadīdah min al-bādīyah al-urdunīyah al-šimālīyyah al-šarqīyah — dirāsah muqāranah wa-taḥlīl. Unpublished doctoral thesis submitted at the University of Baghdad, August 2001. 2001.
[HaNSB] Ḥarāḥšah [Harahsheh], R.M.A. Nuqūš ṣafāʾiyyah min al-bādīyah al-urdunīyah al-šimālīyyah al-šarqīyah — dirāsah wa-taḥlīl. Amman: Ward, 2010.
[LP] Littmann, E. Safaïtic Inscriptions. Syria. Publications of the Princeton University Archaeological Expeditions to Syria in 1904–1905 and 1909. Division IV. Section C. Leiden: Brill, 1943.
[WAMT] Winnett, F.V. An Arabian Miscellany. Annali dell'Istituto Orientale di Napoli 31 [N.S. 21], 1971: 443-454, pls 1-14.

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