HCH 9

Siglum
HCH 9
Transliteration
l zwr bn hrs¹ w bny ʿl- dd -h
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Translation
By Zwr son of Hrs¹ and he built for his paternal uncle
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Language and Script
Safaitic

Interpretation

Commentary
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
Incised
Direction of Script
Curving

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
Current Location
Amman Museum J (1899)
Subjects
Building, Genealogy, Relatives
Old OCIANA ID
#0002862
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Updated 16 Sep, 2024 by OCIANA