HCH 54
Text Information
- Siglum
- HCH 54
- Transliteration
-
l ḫlṣ bn ẓnn w wgm ʿl- hnʾ w bny ʿl- hnʾ trḥ w rġm mny
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- Translation
-
By Ḫlṣ son of Ẓnn and he grieved for Hnʾ and he built for Hnʾ who had perished and was struck down by Fate
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- Language and Script
- Safaitic
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- RVP p. 258: rzm mny for rġm mny. HCH: ẓn for ẓnn. RyNPT p. 581: on trḥ as a proper name (Trḥ built for Hnʾ).
- Commentary
- An apotropaic sign of seven lines is drawn in the middle of the stone. HCH 54 = Stein 9 and is called C. 5429 in RyNPT p. 581. Stein: the inscription is "1/4 mile north of telegraph post 448-7 between H4 and H5" (see RVP p. 255).
- Editio Princeps
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Incised & chiselled
- Direction of Script
- Curving
- Associated Signs
- 7 lines
- [HCH] Harding, G.L. The Cairn of Haniʾ. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 2, 1953: 8-56, pls 1-7.
- Site
- Cairn of Haniʾ near or on it, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Current Location
- Amman Museum J (9)
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0002907
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Updated
16 Sep, 2024
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OCIANA. 'HCH 54.' OCIANA. 16 Sep, 2024. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/8595. Accessed: 15 Jun, 2025.