KRS 47
Text Information
- Siglum
- KRS 47
- Transliteration
- l qnʾl bn ḥbk w tnẓr h- {ʾ}ḫl
- Translation
- By Qnʾl son of Ḥbk and he watched the {valleys}
Interpretation
- Commentary
- One fork of the ʾ is covered by an abrasion.There are light scratches covering the middle part of the inscription. ʾḫl is probably the plural of nḫl “valley”, in which the [n] has been assimilated, as in ʾfs¹ < ʾnfs¹.
- Provenance
- Wādī Salmā
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Incised & scratched
- Inscriptions recorded by Geraldine King on the Basalt Desert Rescue Survey in north-eastern Jordan in 1989 and published here
- Site
- Wādī Salmā, Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 1989
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0020675
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