KRS 873
Text Information
- Siglum
- KRS 873
- Transliteration
- l ʿby bn zrt bn mʾqn h- rmḫ bql
- Translation
- By ʿby son of Zrt son of mʾqn [and he pastured] the herd of camels [on] spring herbage
Interpretation
- Commentary
- There is a cartouche surrounding this inscription and KRS 874-874.1. On the interpretation of the word rmḫ as a "herd" see Al-Jallad 2015: 338–339. It seemslikely that in this inscription the author left out w rʿy "he pastured" before the noun.
- Provenance
- Jordan
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Chiselled & scratched
- Associated Signs
- Cartouche around KRS 873-874.1; 7 lines; circle with rays
- 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
- #0021501
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