HCH 2

Siglum
HCH 2
Transliteration
l hnʾ bn ʿqrb bn hnʾ bn ḥyr w h- rgm
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Translation
By Hnʾ son ʿqrb son of Hnʾ son of Ḥyr and the cairn [is his]
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Language and Script
Safaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
MNH p. 383 n. 481: on ways of expressing grave-markers. l N bn/bnt N etc. w h- rgm "By N son/daughter of N and the cairn [is his/hers]. n. 483.
Commentary
The text is the same as HCH 1. HCH 2 and 9 are enclosed within a cartouche and are separated from each other by a thinly scratched line. On the back of the stone there are some crudely hammered signs which may be wusūm or simply doodles.

Editio Princeps
Ed. pr.

Technique
Rocking blade & incised
Direction of Script
Curving

Associated Signs
Cartouche
Associated Remains
Cairn
Associated Inscriptions

  • [HCH] Harding, G.L. The Cairn of Haniʾ. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 2, 1953: 8-56, pls 1-7.
  • [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
Cairn of Haniʾ, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
Date Found
1951
Current Location
Amman Museum J (1899)
Subjects
Funerary, Genealogy, Structure
Old OCIANA ID
#0002855
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Updated 16 Sep, 2024 by OCIANA