Siglum: HCH 126  Script: Safaitic

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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

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

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.

Subjects
Genealogy Grieving Lineage Warfare Outside peoples Prayer Deity

Country: Jordan
Region: Al-Mafraq Governorate
Site: Cairn of Haniʾ about 300 m NW/NE/W? of the cairn (see HCH p. 9 12 and 17).
Latitude: 32.238590
Longitude: 37.249047
Present Location: Amman Museum J (1911)
Field collector: G.L. Harding
Notes: H5/Safawi

References:
[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].

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