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
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- Translation
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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}
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- Language and Script
- Safaitic
Interpretation
- Commentary
- For ḫbl -h trḥ see Al-Jallad 2015: 9, 180, 267-258, and cf. QSbATM 1.
- Editio Princeps
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Incised
- Direction of Script
- Curving boustrophedon
- 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
- #0021569
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16 Sep, 2024
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