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KRS 583

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 583
Transliteration
l ḃn bn rmʾl bn bs¹ʾ w rʿy h- nḫl {ṣ}wy whʿrygyhlh
Translation
By Ḃn son of Rmʾl son of Bs¹ʾ and he pastured the valley suffering from lack of rain whʿrygyhlh

Interpretation

Commentary
The loop of the ṣ is doubtful and it is possible the letter should be read as an ʾ. The end of the inscription is obscure. For the translation of ṣwy see Al-Jallad 2015: 347.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Scratched

Associated Inscriptions
KRS 578-582; 584-593

  • Inscriptions recorded by Geraldine King on the Basalt Desert Rescue Survey in north-eastern Jordan in 1989 and published here
  • Al-Jallad, A.M. An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions. (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 80). Leiden: Brill, 2015.
Site
Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
Date Found
1989
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0021211
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