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KRS 303

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 303
Transliteration
l ʾs¹lm ft{y} {ḫ}{l}{d} bn ḫlṣ w rʿy h- ḍʾn w ʾḍll b- ḏ gs² w g{d} -h l- ṯnʿs²r ym s¹nt ngy hnʾ bn lbʾt hdy h lt s¹lm
Translation
By ʾs¹lm slave of {Ḫld} son of Ḫlṣ and he pastured the sheep and he led a troop astray here so they mistreated him for twelve days the year Hnʾ son of Lbʾt was appointed commander and so O Lt [grant] security

Interpretation

Commentary
Part of the rock has flaked away after the first t and only parts of the letters are visible. It seems most likely that a y should be restored and the word fty read and then it is possible that ḫl should be restored followed by a d. The loop of the second d is very faint. The author has written a s² instead of a f before h lt. For w ʾḍll b- ḏ gs² w g{d}h l- ṯnʿs²r ym see Al-Jallad 2015: 257.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Rocking-blade

Associated Signs
Wasm
Associated Drawings
KRS 303 d/1

  • 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
#0020931
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