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KRS 1598

Siglum
KRS 1598
Alternative Sigla
AAWAB 18
Transliteration
{l} yʿly bn mnʿm bn ḫṭft w wgm ʿl- gḥfl w h rḍy ʿwr m ʿwr {h-} {s¹}f{r}
Translation
By Yʿly son of Mnʿm son of Ḫṭft and he grieved for Gḥfl and O Rḍy blind whoever scratches out {the} {writing}

Interpretation

Commentary
The letters h, s¹, f, and r at the end of the text are scratched on to the rock and have been hammered over. There is then a drawing of a man and after that a possible h and a line of letters which have been scored over and then the letters gs²n. It is difficult to tell whether this is a continuation of this inscription or a separate text.

Original Reading Credit
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Original Translation Credit
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Technique
Incised & mul. scratched

Associated Signs
Circle with 34 (?) rays and around another circle with a cross inside
Associated Drawings
A camel of indeterminate sex with a rider on its hump holding a rein to its nose in his right hand. From his left hand there is a vertical line ending in a diagonal line stretching a cross the camel's neck and from its bottom a much thinner, more lightly scratched line crossing his body and the base of the camel's neck and then seemingly running up to half-way up the camel's neck. The rider's body is filled in with horizontal lines. Facing the camel is a man on foot shown in a sitting position, also with horizontal lines across his body, shooting an arrow at the cameleer. Below the beginning of the inscription and at right angles to its end is a human figure with raised hands and three horizontal lines across its body, the top one crossed by two short diagonals, and, at its waist, a stick with a curved handle known in Arabic as a bākūr (see Euting 1906: 396–397). Something esle seems to have been drawn across the first bn of this inscription and the beginning of KRS 1598.1, but it is difficult to interpret. KRS 1598 d/1.
Associated Inscriptions

  • Inscriptions recorded by Geraldine King on the Basalt Desert Rescue Survey in north-eastern Jordan in 1989 and published here
  • Euting, J. Der Kamels-Sattel bei den Beduinen. Pages 393-398 in C. Bezold (ed.), Orientalische Studien Theodor Nöldeke zum Siebzigsten Geburtstag, 2. März 1906, gewidmet von Freunden und Schülern. Gieszen: Töpelmann, 1906.
  • Inscriptions recorded by Ali Al-Manaser in Al-Wādī Al-Abyaḍ in June 2021
Site
Al-Wādī al-Abyaḍ, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
Date Found
1989 & 18/06/2021
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Curse, Deity, Genealogy, Grieving, Isolated Prayer
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0022227
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