HCH 131

Siglum
HCH 131
Transliteration
l ʾmyt bn ʾkl ḏ- ʾl ḥly w ndm ʿl- klb -h ḍll f h lt ḥwr
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Translation
By ʾmyt son of ʾkl of the lineage of Ḥly and he grieved for his dog that had strayed. So O Lt grant a returning [of the dog]
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Language and Script
Safaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
MNH p. 364 n. 404: on ḥwr as " return ".

Editio Princeps
Ed. pr.

Technique
Incised
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.
  • [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
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Old OCIANA ID
#0002984
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Updated 16 Sep, 2024 by OCIANA