KRS 68
Text Information
- Siglum
- KRS 68
- Transliteration
-
l ʾnʿm {b}{n} {w}rl bn dmy ḏ- ʾl ʾs²ll w h s²ʿhqm ṣmy nqt f {ʾ}{n} -k bġy -h w qf{y}t -h {w} b- ḫfrt -k fltn m- mt
Al-Jallad 2015a; 2022a
- Translation
-
By ʾnʿm {son of} {Wrl} son of Dmy of the lineage of ʾs²ll and O S²hqm he sacrificed a camel, for {you are indeed} the one he seeks and his {path} {and} through your guidance there is deliverance from death
Al-Jallad 2015a; 2022a
- Language and Script
- Safaitic 2
Interpretation
- Commentary
-
This inscription presents a unique and elaborate prayer to Shayʿ ha-Qawm 'companion of the army' (s²ʿhqm) invoking him for his guidance and deliverance in death, presumably in battle. The invocation follows a camel sacrifice. On the cultural context of the inscription, see Al-Jallad 2022a: 18, 65, 98.
All vocabulary is discussed in SafDict, s.v. and Al-Jallad 2015a: 255, 307, 313, 318, 329.
Ahmad Al-Jallad
- Editio Princeps
- Al-Jallad 2015a
- Field Collector
- G.M.H. King
- Special Letter Forms
- f with one zig-zag
- Technique
- Scratched
- Direction of Script
- Curving boustrophedon
- Associated Inscriptions
- Al-Jallad, A. An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions. (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 80). Leiden: Brill, 2015.
- Al-Jallad, A. The religion and rituals of the nomads of pre-Islamic Arabia: A reconstruction based on the Safaitic inscriptions. (Ancient Languages and Civilizations, 1). Leiden: Brill, 2022a.
- [SafDict] Al-Jallad, A. & Jaworska, K. A Dictionary of the Safaitic Inscriptions. Leiden: Brill, 2019
- [KRS] 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
- Subjects
- Deity, Genealogy, Prayer, Religion
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0020696
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11 Oct, 2025
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Ahmad Al-Jallad
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2022a, Al-Jallad 2015a; and Ahmad Al-Jallad. 'KRS 68.' OCIANA. 11 Oct, 2025. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/27932. Accessed: 17 Jan, 2026.