HCH 146

Text Information

Siglum
HCH 146
Transliteration
l ʾmr bn mġyr ḏ- ʾl {ʿ}{w}{ḏ}
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Translation
By ʾmr son of Mġyr of the lineage of {ʿwḏ}
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Language and Script
Safaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
JSafN 147: ʾgr for ʾmr. LN: l ʾmr bn ms²yr ḏ- ʾl {ʿ}{w}{ḏ} ? MNH pp. 383-384 & n. 484:
Commentary
The lineal name is uncertain from the photograph.

Editio Princeps
Ed. pr.

Technique
Incised
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.
  • [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
#0002999
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Updated 16 Sep, 2024 by OCIANA