HCH 73
Text Information
- Siglum
- HCH 73
- Transliteration
-
l mnʾt w bny ʿl- hnʾ w dmy h- s²ḥt w h-ʾnfr
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- Translation
-
By Mnʾt and he built for Hnʾ and drew a picture of the driving and the beating
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- Language and Script
- Safaitic
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- HCH 73: h-ʾs¹b for h- ʾnfr; and "the pen and the animals pasturing by themselves" for "the driving and the beating" Macdonald 2005: 334–336, the present reading
- Commentary
- See the discussion in Macdonald 2005: 334–336. The term "beating" is used here in the sense of frightening game out of cover so that it can be killed.
- Technique
- Scratched
- Direction of Script
- Boustrophedon
- 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.
- Macdonald, M.C.A. Of rock-art, “desert kites” and meṣāyid. Pages 332-345 in A.V. Sedov & I.M. Smulyanskaya (eds), Arabia Vitalis: Arabskii Vostok, islam, drevnyaya Araviya: Sbornik Naychnykh statei, posvyashchennyi 60-letiyu V.V. Naumkina. Moscow: Rossiiskaya Akademiya Nauk, 2005.
- Site
- Cairn of Haniʾ, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Current Location
- Amman Museum J (1876)
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0002926
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OCIANA,. 'HCH 73.' OCIANA. 16 Sep, 2024. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/8466. Accessed: 19 Jan, 2026.