KRS 274
Text Information
- Siglum
- KRS 274
- Transliteration
- l whb{ʾ}l h- bqr
- Translation
- By {Whbʾl} is [the drawing of] the oryx
Interpretation
- Commentary
- The drawing, which shows a number of oryx, suggests that bqr here is a collective. Bqr is one of the words used for “oryx” in Safaitic (as in Arabic baqar waḥš), the other is dṣy. Bqr is, of course, also used for “cattle”,
- Provenance
- Jordan
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Incised
- Associated Drawings
- KRS 274 d/1
- 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
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0020902
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