KRS 56
Text Information
- Siglum
- KRS 56
- Transliteration
- l ġyrʾl bn hnʾ h- gml w h s²ʿqm s¹lm
- Translation
- By Ġyrʾl son of Hnʾ is [the drawing of] the male camel and O S²ʿqm [grant] security
Interpretation
- Commentary
- Note this is one of a handful of examples of the divine name s²ʿ-h-qm spelt s²ʿqm, see for instance KRS 344, 399, HaNSB 13, etc.
- Provenance
- Wādī Salmā
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Incised & scratched
- Associated Drawings
- KRS 56 d/1
- 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
- Al-Mafraq Antiquities Office and Museum
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0020684
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