HCH 109

Text Information

Siglum
HCH 109
Transliteration
l whb bn bdbl ḏ- ʾl zd w ḥll
OCIANA
Translation
By Whb son of Bdbl of the lineage of Zd and he stopped [there]
OCIANA
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 by OCIANA

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OCIANA. 'HCH 109.' OCIANA. 16 Sep, 2024. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/8494. Accessed: 07 Jun, 2025.