HCH 4
Text Information
- Siglum
- HCH 4
- Transliteration
-
l hrs¹ bn ʿqrb bn hnʾ bn ḥyr w bny [[ʾ]] ʿl- ʾḫ -h tr[ḥ]
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- Translation
-
By Hrs¹ son of ʿqrb son of Hnʾ son of Ḥyr and he built for his brother {who had perished}
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- Language and Script
- Safaitic
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- HCH: trḥ for tr[ḥ]; the word is omitted from the copy on fig.3.
- Commentary
- The author originally wrote an ʾ after bny presumably as the first letter of ʾḫ -h and then realizing that he had omitted ʿl- continued the text above the y. He then drew the line of the cartouche through the ʾ in an attempt to erase it. He also appears to have written the first two letters of tr[ḥ] at the end of the inscription but may have left the word incomplete. There is certainly no sign of the ḥ on the photograph and the r is at the very apex of the cartouche.
- Editio Princeps
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- Technique
- Incised
- Direction of Script
- Curving
- Associated Signs
- 7 lines
- 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.
- Site
- Cairn of Haniʾ, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Finding inscription(s), Genealogy, Relatives
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0002857
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16 Sep, 2024
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