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KRS 598

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 598
Transliteration
l ḥmy w ngr {ẓ}lm b- ḥm
Translation
By Ḥmy and he endured oppressed by heat

Interpretation

Commentary
It is possible that the ninth letter should be read as a g as there is a thin line across one end. For the interpretation see Al-Jallad 2015: 269, 330.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Direct hammered

Associated Inscriptions

  • 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
#0021226
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