NRW.D 1

Siglum: NRW.D 1
Transliteration: l s¹krn bn qdm ḏ- ʾl s¹b w ʿly h- ʾfs¹ l- frs¹ grmʾl f h lt ḫlft
Translation: By S¹krn son of Qdm of the lineage of S¹b and he raised the memorials to Cavalryman Grmʾl and so O Lt [may he have] a successor

Interpretation

Commentary: This text is incised and runs boustrophedon. The author omitted the s¹ of frs¹ but squeezed it in between the r and the next letter. This small site (NRW.D) seems to have been the grave or some form of memorial to frs¹ grmʾl since several texts there mention him. This would be the first time a "double name" of this sort had been found in Safaitic, and it is more likely that frs¹ here is a title (i.e. "cavalryman") thus "Cavalryman Grmʾl". While, in this case, one might expect either *grmʾl h-frs¹ or *h-frs¹ grmʾl, compare mlk ʾgrfṣ in Is.H 763 (=LP 1064+1065) as opposed to h-mlk grfṣ in KRS 1023, 1039 and Al-Namārah.H 91.

Inscriptions recorded by Geraldine King on the Basalt Desert Rescue Survey in north-eastern Jordan in 1989 and published here No. 1023, 1039
Littmann, E. Safaïtic Inscriptions. Syria. Publications of the Princeton University Archaeological Expeditions to Syria in 1904–1905 and 1909. Division IV. Section C. Leiden: Brill, 1943.
Inscriptions recorded by Hussein Zeinaddin during the Al-Namārah Rescue Survey 1996 and published here
Inscriptions recorded at al-ʿĪsāwī by Hussein Zeinaddin, on the Safaitic Epigraphic Survey Programme, 1995–2002, and published here.
Inscriptions recorded by the Safaitic Epigraphic Survey Programme in 1995 at a large low cairn surmounted by a small pile of stones on the west side of the "Roman road" between al-Namārah and the Ruḥbah, and published here.

Site: Unnamed site west of the “Roman road” from al-Namārah to the Ruḥbah. Clearly the burial place of frs¹ grmʾl, Jordan