HCH 26

Siglum
HCH 26
Transliteration
l s¹lmn bn ḫlṣ bn tm w bny ʿl- hnʾ h- rgm ḏ- ʾl mʿṣ
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Translation
By S¹lmn son of Ḫlṣ son of Tm and he built for Hnʾ the cairn of the lineage of Mʿṣ
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Language and Script
Safaitic

Interpretation

Editio Princeps
Ed. pr.

Technique
Incised
Direction of Script
Curving

Associated Signs
Thinly scratched cartouche. Miscellaneous lines
Associated Remains
Cairn

  • [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 (1881)
Subjects
Building, Genealogy, Lineage
Old OCIANA ID
#0002879
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Updated 16 Sep, 2024 by OCIANA

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OCIANA. 'HCH 26.' OCIANA. 16 Sep, 2024. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/8432. Accessed: 03 Jul, 2025.