HCH 126

Text Information

Siglum
HCH 126
Transliteration
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
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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Updated 16 Sep, 2024 by OCIANA