KRS 255
Text Information
- Siglum
- KRS 255
- Transliteration
- l ʾbgr bn nʿmn bn ʾbgr bn nṣr bn grmʾl bn k{n} w ḥll h- dr f h ʾṯʿ s¹lm w ġnmt l- ḏ dʿy w ʿwr l- ḏ ʿwr h- tll
- Translation
- By ʾbgr son of Nʿmn son of ʾbgr son of Nṣr son of Grmʾl son of {Kn} and he camped here and so O ʾṯʿ [grant] security and booty to whoever reads [the inscription] aloud and [inflict] blindness on whoever scratches out the words
Interpretation
- Commentary
- The stone is slightly damaged after the k of the sixth name but a n is just visible. There are faint scratches over the first part of the inscription. For the interpretation of tll see Al-Jallad 2015: 348.
- Provenance
- Jordan
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Incised
- Inscriptions recorded by Geraldine King on the Basalt Desert Rescue Survey in north-eastern Jordan in 1989 and published here
- Al-Jallad, A.M. An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions. (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 80). Leiden: Brill, 2015.
- Site
- Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 1989
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0020883
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