KRS 242
Text Information
- Siglum
- KRS 242
- Transliteration
- l s²mt bn ḥy f h ʾlt s¹lm l- ddy
- Translation
- By S²mt son of Ḥy and so O ʾlt [grant] security to ddy
Interpretation
- Commentary
- The reading of y at the end is clear although it is difficult to explain. It is possible that it is a dual form "two paternal uncles" although one would expect the enclitic pronoun -h “his”. The two possible interpretations would seem to be either that ddy is a previously unknown personal name, or that the author has changed to the first person and it means “my paternal uncle”.
- Provenance
- Jordan
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Incised
- Associated Inscriptions
- Inscriptions recorded by Geraldine King on the Basalt Desert Rescue Survey in north-eastern Jordan in 1989 and published here
- Site
- Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 1989
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0020870
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