KRS 370
Text Information
- Siglum
- KRS 370
- Transliteration
- l ḥrb bn ʾs¹n bn mkmd w nẓr {h}m----w-----hyw l- ḏ yʿwr
- Translation
- By Ḥrb son of ʾs¹n son of Mkmd and he was on the look-out {h}m----w-----hyw to whoever scratches out [the inscription]
Interpretation
- Commentary
- The body of a camel has been hammered over the top of the first m the “arms” of which have been used as the camel's legs. After the third m the text is difficult to read although there appears to be the last part of a curse at the end.
- Provenance
- Jordan
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Name Distinguished
- Direct hammered/incised
- Special Features
- Letters as drawings
- Technique
- Direct ham/incised
- Associated Signs
- Part of a cartouchearound KRS 367, part of KRS 368, and KRS 369–370.
- Associated Drawings
- KRS 370 d/1
- Associated Inscriptions
- KRS 366 (other face); 367-369
- 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
- #0020998
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