KRS 1023

Siglum
KRS 1023
Transliteration
l ʿlm bn ṣʿb bn grmʾl bn ḏʾb w mrd ʿl- h- mlk grfṣ ks¹r {h-} s¹l{s¹}[lt]
OCIANA
Translation
By ʿlm son of Ṣʿb son of Grmʾl son of Ḏʾb and he rebelled against king Agrippa to break {the bonds}
OCIANA
Language and Script
Safaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
MHED pp. 289-290 nn. 35-36; MNH p. 343 n. 260: on h- mlk grfṣ.
Commentary
Part of the second h and third s¹ are covered by hammer marks as is the end of the inscription. The letters lt are restored in the last word on the basis of the expression ks¹r h- s¹ls¹lt which occurs in KRS 1039.

Editio Princeps
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Technique
Incised
Direction of Script
Boustrophedon

  • [KRS] Inscriptions recorded by Geraldine King on the Basalt Desert Rescue Survey in north-eastern Jordan in 1989 and published here
  • [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].
  • [MHED] Macdonald, M.C.A. Herodian Echoes in the Syrian Desert. Pages 285-290 in S. Bourke & J.-P. Descoeudres (eds), Trade, Contact, and the Movement of Peoples in the Eastern Mediterranean. Studies in Honour of J. Basil Hennessy. (Mediterranean Archaeology. Supplement, 3). Sydney: Mediterranean Archaeology, 1995.
Site
Sheet 3455 II 563062 on the 1:50,000 maps of Jordan, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
Date Found
1989
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Old OCIANA ID
#0021651
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