KRS 371

Siglum
KRS 371
Transliteration
l ʾs¹lm bn ʾbyn h- ḫbby h rḍy ġnmt
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Translation
By ʾs¹lm son of ʾbyn the Ḫbbite O Rḍy [grant] booty
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Language and Script
Safaitic

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.

Editio Princeps
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Technique
Chiselled incised mul. scrat
Direction of Script
Curving

Associated Signs
Part of a cartouche; 7 lines

  • [KRS] Inscriptions recorded by Geraldine King on the Basalt Desert Rescue Survey in north-eastern Jordan in 1989 and published here
  • [MNH] 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].
  • [WH] 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
Site
Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
Date Found
1989
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Old OCIANA ID
#0020999
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