KRS 593

Interpretation

Commentary: The text is written vertically behind and below the smaller camel and is difficult to interpret as it has been tampered with by the addition of lines and infilling. The w has been joined to the initial l by a line. The third letter might be a g but the variation in technique of some of the hammering suggests that it might have been a b and then the arms were enclosed by a line. The r has been joined to the following b by a line. The n is joined to the following letter which is an infilled circle. It is small enough to be an ʿ or it might be a g or w. The next letter is a line with a slight protusion in the middle. It might be a q with the loop filled in or a t or the protusion might be part of a line joining the letter to the preceding one in which case it should be read as a l. The last letter is a line with infilled loops at either end. It might be a ṯ or a ṣ.

Inscriptions recorded by Geraldine King on the Basalt Desert Rescue Survey in north-eastern Jordan in 1989 and published here