HCH 109
Text Information
- Siglum
- HCH 109
- Transliteration
-
l whb bn bdbl ḏ- ʾl zd w ḥll
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- Translation
-
By Whb son of Bdbl of the lineage of Zd and he stopped [there]
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- Language and Script
- Safaitic
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- HIn p. 936: bdbl or bdrl ? JSafN 35 p. 46: qbl for bdbl. MCAM from photo: definitely bdbl.
- Commentary
- The third letter of the second name is clearly a b and not a r on the photograph. 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.
- Technique
- Chiselled
- Direction of Script
- L-R/R-L
- 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.
- [JSaf.N] Jamme, A. Safaitic Notes (Commentary on JaS 44-176). [privately printed]. Washington, DC, 1970.
- Site
- Cairn of Haniʾ, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Current Location
- Amman Museum J (1895)
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0002962
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Updated
16 Sep, 2024
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OCIANA. 'HCH 109.' OCIANA. 16 Sep, 2024. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/8494. Accessed: 07 Jun, 2025.