NRW.D 1
Text Information
- 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
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subjects
- Deity, Funerary, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Military
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0036026
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