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KRS 1598.1

Siglum
KRS 1598.1
Alternative Sigla
AAWAB 18.1
Transliteration
---- {b}{n} {g}s²n
Translation
---- {son of} {Gs²n}

Interpretation

Commentary
The text is carved parallel to the end of KRS 1598 and has been very heavily scored over.

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
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0040513
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