KRS 885
Text Information
- Siglum
- KRS 885
- Transliteration
- l ʾs¹ bn nʿmn bn kn bn nʿmn bn wʿl bn rbn bn s²ʿr bn kn w [r]ʿy f lt s¹[l]m w ʿ[w]r l- ḏ yʿ[w]r w s¹r
- Translation
- By ʾs¹ son of Nʿmn son of Kn son of Nʿmn son of Wʿl son of Rbn son of S²ʿr son of Kn and {he pastured} and so Lt [grant] {security} and [inflict] {blindness} on whoever {scratches out} [the inscription] and he journeyed
Interpretation
- Commentary
- The author has left out several letters. It seems likely that r should be restored before ʿy to read rʿy and l between s¹ and m to read s¹lm. It is also possible that he also omitted the w in ʿ[w]r l- ḏ yʿ[w]r.
- Provenance
- Jordan
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Incised & scratched
- Associated Drawings
- KRS 885 d/1
- 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
- #0021513
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