HCH 105

Siglum: HCH 105
Transliteration: l s¹ʿd bn ʿbd ḏ- ʾl ḥzy w rʿy ḍʾn -h w tkym ʿl- rgl f h lt s¹lm
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Translation: By S¹ʿd son of ʿbd of the lineage of Ḥzy and he pastured his sheep and they were gathering at Rgl and so O Lt [grant] security
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Language and Script: Safaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus: HCH: w ts²ym ʿl- rgl "and he attacked a man (?)" for w tkym ʿl- rgl "and they were gathering at Rgl". Jamme 1971: 21: w rʿy ḍʾn hwtl "And he has pastured the sheep of hwtl" for w rʿy ḍʾn -h w tkym ʿl- rgl". Jamme 1971: 26: ymʿl rgl "[who] was castrating males" for tkym ʿl rgl "and they were gathering at Rgl."
Commentary: On ḥẓy see Milik 1980: 53 n. 4. Macdonald 2009, II: 319 n. 113: on ʾl ḥẓy writing about their sheep. The reading tkym ʿl rgl is clear but its meaning is obscure. We have translated it in the sense of "coming together", on the basis of Arabic K-W-M "to heap up", kūm "a herd of camels" (Hava 1982: 670).Rgl could well be the name of a topographic feature. The Wādī which today is called Wādī Rāǧil is not far from the Cairn of Haniʾ where this text was found.

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.
[Hava] Hava, J.G. Al-Faraid Arabic-English Dictionary. Fifth edition. Beirut: Dār al-Mašriq, 1982.
[JVR] Jamme, A. The Grammatical Usage of the Safaitic Verb rʿy, to pasture. Annali dell'Istituto Orientale di Napoli 31 [N.S. 21], 1971: 21-40.
Macdonald, M.C.A. Literacy and Identity in Pre-Islamic Arabia. (Variorum Collected Studies, 906). Farnham: Ashgate, 2009.
[MTB] Milik, J.T. La tribu des Bani ʿAmrat en Jordanie de l'époque grecque et romaine. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 24, 1980: 41-54.

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