KRS 583
Text Information
- Siglum
- KRS 583
- Transliteration
-
l ḃn bn rmʾl bn bs¹ʾ w rʿy h- nḫl {ṣ}wy whʿrygyhlh
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- Translation
-
By Ḃn son of Rmʾl son of Bs¹ʾ and he pastured the valley suffering from lack of rain whʿrygyhlh
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- Language and Script
- Safaitic
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.
- Editio Princeps
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Scratched
- Direction of Script
- Curving
- Associated Inscriptions
- KRS 578-582; 584-593
- Al-Jallad, A. An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions. (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 80). Leiden: Brill, 2015.
- [KRS] 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
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0021211
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Updated
16 Sep, 2024
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Cite this Site
OCIANA. 'KRS 583.' OCIANA. 16 Sep, 2024. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/37036. Accessed: 30 May, 2025.