HCH 69

Siglum
HCH 69
Transliteration
l ms¹ʿd bn ʾḥdṯ bn rmḥt w wgm ʿl- hnʾ ḏ- ʾl mʿṣ trḥ
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Translation
By Ms¹ʿd son of ʾḥdṯ son of Rmḥt and he grieved for Hnʾ of the lineage of Mʿṣ who had perished
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Language and Script
Safaitic

Interpretation

Editio Princeps
Ed. pr.

Technique
Rocking blade & chiselle
Direction of Script
Boustrophedon

  • [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 about 20 m north of the north-eastern group of texts (HCH p. 17)., Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
Current Location
Amman Museum J (1893)
Subject
Genealogy
Old OCIANA ID
#0002922
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Updated 16 Sep, 2024 by OCIANA