KRS 499
Text Information
- Siglum
- KRS 499
- Transliteration
- l grmʾl bn {ḏ}ʾl w wr{d} bʿ---- ʾlt fṣy h- s¹nt w n{q}ʾt l- ḏ yʿwr h- s¹fr
- Translation
- By Grmʾl son of {Ḏʾl} and {he came to a watering place} bʿ---- ʾlt [grant] deliverance this year and [inflict] {ejection from the grave} on whoever scratches out the inscription
Interpretation
- Commentary
- There is an abrasion over the letters after the first ʿ and before the deity's name. The q is largely covered by a hammer mark.
- Provenance
- Jordan
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Incised & scratched
- Associated Signs
- Cartouche around KRS 495-499
- Associated Inscriptions
- KRS 495-498
- 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
- #0021127
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