Siglum: HCH 9  Script: Safaitic

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Transliteration
l zwr bn hrs¹ w bny ʿl- dd -h

Translation
By Zwr son of Hrs¹ and he built for his paternal uncle

Commentary
HCH 2 and 9 are enclosed within a cartouche and are separated from each other by a thinly scratched line. On the back of the stone there are some crudely hammered signs which may be wusūm or simply doodles.

Subjects
Genealogy Building Relatives

Country: Jordan
Region: Al-Mafraq Governorate
Site: Cairn of Haniʾ
Map reference: 360.185 (Palestine Belt Grid)
Latitude: 32.238590
Longitude: 37.249047
Present Location: Amman Museum J (1899)
Field collector: G.L. Harding
Notes: H5/Safawi
Associated Inscriptions: HCH 2
Associated Remains: Cairn

References:
[HCH] Harding, G.L. The Cairn of Haniʾ. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 2, 1953: 8-56, pls 1-7.

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].

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