KRS 371
Text Information
- Siglum
- KRS 371
- Transliteration
- l ʾs¹lm bn ʾbyn h- ḫbby h rḍy ġnmt
- Translation
- By ʾs¹lm son of ʾbyn the Ḫbbite O Rḍy [grant] booty
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- MNH p. 345 n. 269: on the occurrence of ḫbby with rḍy, where KRS 1804 should be corrected to KRS 371..
- Commentary
- ḏ- ʾl ḫbb occurs in WH 1607.
- Provenance
- Jordan
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Chiselled incised mul. scrat
- Associated Signs
- Part of a cartouche; 7 lines
- Inscriptions recorded by Geraldine King on the Basalt Desert Rescue Survey in north-eastern Jordan in 1989 and published here
- Winnett, F.V. & Harding, G.L. Inscriptions from Fifty Safaitic Cairns. (Near and Middle East Series, 9). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1978. No. 1607
- Macdonald, M.C.A. Nomads and the Ḥawrān in the late Hellenistic and Roman periods: A reassessment of the epigraphic evidence. Syria 70, 1993: 303-413. [Reprinted with the same pagination, plus addenda and corrigenda as Article II in M.C.A. Macdonald, Literacy and Identity in Pre-Islamic Arabia, (Variorum Collected Studies Series no. 906), Farnham: Ashgate, 2009].
- Site
- Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 1989
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0020999
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