KRS 379
Text Information
- Siglum
- KRS 379
- Transliteration
- l nhb bn s¹ʿd bn ġyrʾl bn s¹krn bn zkr bn ẓnʾl bn s¹b w wgd ʾṯr zkr ʿm -h f ngʿ
- Translation
- By Nhb son of S¹ʿd son of Ġyrʾl son of S¹krn son of Zkr son of Ẓnʾl son of S¹b and he found the inscription of Zkr his great great grandfather and so he was sad
Interpretation
- Commentary
- This text is a good illustration of how the word ʿm in Safaitic can mean “grandfather” or “ancestor beyond grandfather”. Cf. KRS 378.
- Provenance
- Jordan
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Scratched
- 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
- #0021007
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