KRS 262

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 262
Transliteration
l s¹ʾr bn ʾs²ym bn qʿṣn bn ʾs²hl bn s²qr w ʾty m- mdbr m<<>>ʿ h- ḍʾnt f s¹lm h lt
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Translation
By S¹ʾr son of ʾs²ym son of Qʿṣn son of ʾs²hl son of S²qr and he came from the inner desert with the few sheep and so [grant] security O Lt
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Language and Script
Safaitic

Interpretation

Commentary
The author wrote an extra m after mdbr. On the use of ḍʾnt as a plural of paucity see Al-Jallad 2015: 66.

Editio Princeps
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Technique
Incised
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.
  • [KRS] 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
Old OCIANA ID
#0020890
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Updated 16 Sep, 2024 by OCIANA