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KRS 15

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 15
Alternative Sigla
KR 1
Transliteration
l ʿqrb bn mʿz bn ġzlt w wgd s¹fr ms¹k w ngʾt f tʿql w dwy w mṭy m- glʿd l- tdmr f h s²ʿhqm s¹lm w ġnyt l- ḏ s²ḥṣ
Translation
By ʿqrb son of Mʿz son of Ġzlt and he found the inscription of Ms¹k and Ngʾt and so he was unable to speak and was miserable and he travelled quickly from Glʿd to Tdmr and so O S²ʿhqm [grant] security and abundance to whoever is suffering from scarcity

Interpretation

Commentary
The author appears to be a brother of the author of KRS 16. For another reference to glʿd see C 2473 (which also mentions Abila) and possibly AWS 168.

Provenance
Wādī Salmā
Original Reading Credit
Ed. pr.
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Scratched

  • Inscriptions recorded by Geraldine King on the Basalt Desert Rescue Survey in north-eastern Jordan in 1989 and published here
  • 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].
  • King, G.M.H. The Basalt Desert Rescue Survey and Some Preliminary Remarks on the Safaitic Inscriptions and Rock Drawings. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 20, 1990: 55-78.
Site
Wādī Salmā, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
Date Found
1989
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0020643
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