HCH 88
Text Information
- Siglum
- HCH 88
- Transliteration
-
l rḍwt bn ʾd bn s¹ʿd w bny ʿl- hnʾ
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- Translation
-
By Rḍwt son of ʾd son of S¹ʿd and he built for Hnʾ
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- Language and Script
- Safaitic
Interpretation
- Commentary
- The stone partly covered a grave cut in the soil on the southern face of the cairn in which the body of a woman was found. See HCH p. 11.
- Editio Princeps
- Ed. pr.
- Special Letter Forms
- The ḍ is two vertical lines with a single horizontal line across the middle. cf. the letter in HCH 89 although in the photograph it looks as though there is possibly a very shallow second horizontal line.
- Technique
- Chiselled & incised
- Direction of Script
- Curving edge
- 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
- Amman Museum J (1909)
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0002941
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16 Sep, 2024
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