HCH 134

Siglum
HCH 134
Transliteration
l ddʾl w gls¹ f ʿrf s¹fr nṣr ʾḫ -h f lt s¹lm
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Translation
By Ddʾl and he stopped [there] and he recognized the letters of Nṣr his brother. So Lt [grant] security
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Language and Script
Safaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
HCH: "So O Lt" for "So Lt" where the vocative particle is included in the translation by mistake. SIAM II p. 193: m of s¹lm is clear on the stone although it is missing from both the copies. MNH pp. 383-384 & n. 484:

Editio Princeps
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Technique
Scratched
Direction of Script
Boustrophedon

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.
  • [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
#0002987
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