KRS 696
Text Information
- Siglum
- KRS 696
- Transliteration
- l hnʾ bn wrd bn s²{h}yt bn ʾs¹ bn ḥg w ṣyr dṯʾ s¹[n]{t} ngy bnṣʿr f h lt s¹lm w ʿr m ʿwr
- Translation
- By Hnʾ son of Wrd son of {S²hyt} son of ʾs¹ son of Ḥg and he returned to a watering place whilst spending the season of the later rains {the year} Bnṣʿr was appointed and so O Lt [grant] security and blind whoever scratches out [the inscription]
Interpretation
- Commentary
- For the translation of ngy as "was appointed" see Macdonald 2015: 155–156. See KRS 883, for another example of ʿr for the more usual ʿwr.
- Provenance
- Jordan
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Direct hammered
- Associated Signs
- Concentric circles with rays on the outer one
- Associated Inscriptions
- Inscriptions recorded by Geraldine King on the Basalt Desert Rescue Survey in north-eastern Jordan in 1989 and published here
- Macdonald, M.C.A. ‘Romans Go Home’? Rome and other ‘Outsiders’ as viewed from the Syro-Arabian Desert. Pages 145-163 in J.H.E. Dijkstra & G. Fisher (eds), Inside and Out. Interactions between Rome and the Peoples on the Arabian and Egyptian Frontiers in Late Antiquity. (Late Antique History and Religion, 8). Louvain: Peeters, 2014.
- Site
- Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 1989
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0021324
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