KRS 897

Siglum: KRS 897
Transliteration: l whbʾl bn ṣʿd bn ys¹mʾl w wgd ʾṯr ṣʿd f ngʿ w ql ḫbl-{h}
Translation: 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

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.

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.