HCH 80

Text Information

Siglum
HCH 80
Transliteration
l ʿqrbn bn ks¹ṭ w h- tll
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Translation
By ʿqrbn son of Ks¹ṭ and the words [are his]
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Language and Script
Safaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
HCH: h- tll "the riding camel"; Littmann quoted in commentary to HCH 80: h-tll "the tied and driven beast"; RyMA p. 123: tll "ostrich"; MNH p. 328 n. 159: on hunting scenes in drawings.
Commentary
For tll see Al-Jallad & Jaworska.

Editio Princeps
Ed. pr.

Technique
Scratched
Direction of Script
Top-to-bottom

Associated Remains
Cairn

  • [SafDict] Al-Jallad, A. & Jaworska, K. A Dictionary of the Safaitic Inscriptions. Leiden: Brill, 2019
  • [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].
  • [RyMA] Ryckmans, G. La mention de l'autruche en ṣafaïtique. Le Muséon 71, 1958: 120-124, pl. 5.
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 (1885)
Subject
Genealogy
Old OCIANA ID
#0002933
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Updated 16 Sep, 2024 by OCIANA