HCH 130

Text Information

Siglum
HCH 130
Transliteration
l s¹lmt bn nṣr bn s¹lmt bn ʾs¹ ḏ- ʾl tm w gls¹
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Translation
By S¹lmt son of Nṣr son of S¹lmt son of ʾs¹ of the lineage of Tm and he stopped [there]
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Language and Script
Safaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
HCH: nḫr for nṣr. JSafN 91 p. 69: nṣr for nḫr. JSIS p. 202 JaS comm. 4: nhr for nḫr. SIAM II p. 193: nṣr for nḫr. H unpub: nhr for nḫr. MNH pp. 383-384 & n. 484:

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Special Letter Forms
ṣ without a central line
Technique
Rocking blade
Direction of Script
Curving

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.
  • [JSIS] Jamme, A. Safaitic Inscriptions from Saudi Arabia. Oriens Antiquus 6, 1967: 189-213, pl. 50-55.
  • [SIAM II] Macdonald, M.C.A. Safaitic Inscriptions in the Amman Museum and Other Collections II. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 24, 1980: 185-208, pls 111-133.
  • [MNH] Macdonald, M.C.A. Nomads and the Ḥawrān in the late Hellenistic and Roman periods: A reassessment of the epigraphic evidence. Syria 70, 1993: 303-413. [Reprinted with the same pagination, plus addenda and corrigenda as Article II in M.C.A. Macdonald, Literacy and Identity in Pre-Islamic Arabia, (Variorum Collected Studies Series no. 906), Farnham: Ashgate, 2009].
Site
Cairn of Haniʾ, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
Current Location
Amman Museum J (14172)
Subject
Genealogy
Old OCIANA ID
#0002983
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