KRS 776
Text Information
- Siglum
- KRS 776
- Transliteration
- l s¹ʿd bn mrʾ w wgd s¹fr ḫl -h f s¹qm
- Translation
- By S¹ʿd son of Mrʾ and he found the writing of his maternal uncle and so he was sick [with grief]
Interpretation
- Commentary
- The author has used f as the conjunction implying that the finding of his maternal uncle's writing has made the author sick. The sickness implied therefore is presumably an emotional one rather than some physical ailment.
- 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
- Site
- Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 1989
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0021404
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