KRS 272
Text Information
- Siglum
- KRS 272
- Transliteration
- l {h}mʿḏ bn db h- s¹knt
- Translation
- By {Hmʿḏ} son of Db is the dwelling [?]
Interpretation
- Commentary
- The second letter is rather ineptly inscribed and the fork is not clear. Despite the presence of a drawing of a camel the final word is clearly not bkrt but s¹knt, which would mean “a [single] dwelling”. The implication is something permanent rather than a tent (bt). The word recurs in WGGR 1 (see Al-Jallad 2015: 341). For a discussion of possible settlements of the ʾl Ḍf, see Macdonald, Al Muazzin, & Nehmé 1996: 462–464.
- Provenance
- Jordan
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Direct hammered
- Associated Drawings
- KRS 272 d/1
- Associated Inscriptions
- Inscriptions recorded by Geraldine King on the Basalt Desert Rescue Survey in north-eastern Jordan in 1989 and published here
- Macdonald, M.C.A., Al Muʾazzin, M. & Nehmé, L. Les inscriptions safaïtiques de Syrie, cent quarante ans après leur découverte. Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions & Belles-Lettres 1996: 435-494.
- 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
- #0020900
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