SIJ 253+254
Text Information
- Siglum
- SIJ 253+254
- Alternative Sigla
- KRS 2076
- Transliteration
- l s¹krn bn {s¹}{w}r bn hf bn ʾṯʿ h rḍy ġnmt m- ḥwlt h- s¹trt {k}- {s²}r{ḥ}
- Translation
- By S¹krn son of {S¹wr} son of Hf son of ʾṯʿ O Rḍy [grant] booty from Ḥwlt [to him belongs] the shelter [and he was present at] the rugged place
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- SIJ 253: as above to ġnmt SIJ 254: ----ḥwlt hs¹trths²rs¹ JSafN p. 112: read as one text.
- Commentary
- This is clearly one text. Most of the letters at the beginning and the end of the inscription have been joined by drawing a straight line through them though those of the first name have also been ligatured to each other.
- Provenance
- [KRS] "King Rescue Survey". Inscriptions recorded by Geraldine King on the Basalt Rescue Desert Survey in north-eastern Jordan in 1989.
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Winnett, F.V. Safaitic Inscriptions from Jordan. (Near and Middle East Series, 2). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1957.
- Site
- Ǧāwā, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0016936
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