KRS 338
Text Information
- Siglum
- KRS 338
- Transliteration
- l tm bn mfny bn nʿmn bn whb bn s¹b h- ḫṭṭ w ḫrṣ s²nʾ f h lt s¹lm w nqʾt l- ḏ yʿwr
- Translation
- By Tm son of Mfny son of Nʿmn son of Whb son of S¹b is the carving and he was on the look-out for enemies and so O Lt [grant] security and [inflict] ejection from the grave on whoever scratches out [the inscription]
Interpretation
- Commentary
- The inscription starts in large well chiselled letters running around the drawing of a horseman spearing a gazelle. However, after ḫṭṭ the inscription is continued in tiny incised letters above the horse's head.
- Provenance
- Jordan
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Chiselled/scratched
- Associated Signs
- A hammered dotted cartouche around parts of the text
- Associated Drawings
- KRS 338 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
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0020966
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