KRS 294
Text Information
- Siglum
- KRS 294
- Transliteration
- l ḥnn bn s¹lm ʿbd ʾl ʾs¹mʿl w wgd s¹fr ʾb -h f bʾs¹ m ẓll
- Translation
- By Ḥnn son of S¹lm ʿbd ʾl ʾs¹mʿl and he found the writing of his father and so he was miserable overshadowed (with grief)
Interpretation
- Commentary
- It is possible the name ʿbdʾl should be read after s¹lm and [bn] ʿbdʾl [bn] ʾs¹mʿl should be restored. On the other hand, the sequence ʿbd ʾl ʾs¹mʿl could mean “servant of the lineage group of ʾs¹mʿl”. It is unlikely that the author was a slave since he gives his father's name, whereas slaves give the name of their masters (see under fty).
- Provenance
- Jordan
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Incised
- Associated Signs
- Wasm consisting of 2 crosses
- Associated Drawings
- KRS 294 d/1
- 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
- #0020922
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