HCH 126
Text Information
- Siglum
- HCH 126
- Transliteration
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l ʿḍ bn hnʾ w wgm ʿl- rḍwt ḏ- ʾl nmrt bn ʾs¹ mqtl qtl -h ʾl ḥwlt f h lt w ds²r ṯʾr
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- Translation
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By ʿḍ son of Hnʾ and he grieved for Rḍwt of the lineage of Nmrt son of ʾs¹ who was killed. The tribe of Ḥwlt killed him. So O Lt and Ds²r [give] vengeance
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- Language and Script
- Safaitic
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- HCH: mqtl qtl h- ʾl ḥwlt for mqtl qtl -h ʾl ḥwlt "who was killed [while] killing the people of Ḥwlt". Harding unp. p. 173: mqtl qtl hʾl ḥwlt "who was killed fighting with the people of ḥwlt". MCAM: correct reading and translation of qtl -h ʾl ḥwlt. MNH pp. 348-349 & n. 291: ḏ- ʾl nmrt - example of an ʾl which has the name of a settlement; p. 364.
- Editio Princeps
- Ed. pr.
- Technique
- Rocking blade & chiselle
- Direction of Script
- Coil (edge)
- [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 (1911)
- Subjects
- Deity, Genealogy, Grieving, Isolated Prayer, Lineage, Outside peoples, Warfare
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0002979
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