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KRS 941

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 941
Transliteration
l nʿmn bn ṣʿd bn ys¹mʿl w wgd ʾṯr ṣʿd f ngʿ w bʾs¹ mẓll w rġm m{n}{y} {ʿ}{n}{y} {w} {q}l ḫbl -h trḥ w h lt ʿwr ḏ yʿwr h- s¹{f}r
Translation
By Nʿmn son of Ṣʿd son of Ys¹mʿl and he found the traces of Ṣʿd and so he grieved in pain and for those who remain despair and he [Ṣʿd] had been struck down {by Fate} {while suffering} {and he [the author] said aloud} 'may its [the inscription's] effacer perish' and O Lt blind him who would efface this {writing}

Interpretation

Commentary
For ḫbl -h trḥ see Al-Jallad 2015: 9, 180, 267-258, and cf. QSbATM 1.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Incised

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
#0021569
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