KRS 321
Text Information
- Siglum
- KRS 321
- Transliteration
- l mʿḍ bn zwr {{w}} {{w}}{{g}}m ʿm f ʿm f n{{ẓ}}r mny w ʿwr m ʿwr h rḍw
- Translation
- By Mʿḍ son of Zwr {and} {he} {grieved} year after year and so {he} {awaited} fate and blind whoever scratches out [the inscription] O Rḍw
Interpretation
- Commentary
- The letters w wg have been filled in with hammering and the ẓ of nẓr has been changed to a w. The first part of the text is directly hammered and the curse is scratched on the rock.
- Provenance
- Jordan
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Special Features
- Ligatures & infilling
- Special Letter Forms
- y loop is a dot
- Technique
- Direct hammered/scratched
- Associated Inscriptions
- KRS 304-312 (other face); 313-320; 322; 323 (third face)
- 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
- #0020949
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