KRS 897
Text Information
- Siglum
- KRS 897
- Transliteration
-
l whbʾl bn ṣʿd bn ys¹mʾl w wgd ʾṯr ṣʿd f ngʿ w ql ḫbl-{h}
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- Translation
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By Whbʾl son of Ṣʿd son of Ys¹mʿl and he found the traces of Ṣʿd and so he grieved in pain and he said may its effacer
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- Language and Script
- Safaitic
Interpretation
- Commentary
- The reading of h at the end is very doubtful. The vertical line is clear and then there is a lightly scratched line which might be intended to form a rather large fork. The inscription appears to be unfinished. Compare KRS 213: w wgd ḫṭṭ ġyrʾl f ngʿ w ql ḫbl ḫrm ʾn ygll "and he found the carving of Ġyrʾl so he grieved in pain and said 'may any effacer go mad if it [the inscription] should be erased' " See Al-Jallad 2015: 256, 335.
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- Technique
- Incised & scratched
- Direction of Script
- Curving
- Associated Inscriptions
- Al-Jallad, A. An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions. (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 80). Leiden: Brill, 2015.
- [KRS] 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
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0021525
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16 Sep, 2024
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