KRS 28

Interpretation

Commentary: There might be a l before the s¹ but the photograph is not good enough to be certain or to know whether the inscription begins on another face of the rock. The first n is rather faint. The loop of the d is slightly uncertain and the following n is rather more lightly scratched than the rest of the letters. It is possible the text should be read s¹ʿʾl----b {w} rʿ{y} {d}{n} ʿnzt where what has been read above as a ḥ is read as a w and what has been read as a g is an ʿ although it would be larger than the first ʿ in the text. The letter read as a ḏ might be a y if one of the apparent prongs is incidental but even so the line joining the loop would be rather doubtful. Jabal ʿAnāzah is north of Al-Safāwī in north-east Jordan (32.37583333 N 37.07194444 E). On the other hand it is possible that ʿnzt is "a long flat-topped hill rising from a plain" (Groom 1983: 41).

Associated Inscriptions

Inscriptions recorded by Geraldine King on the Basalt Desert Rescue Survey in north-eastern Jordan in 1989 and published here