KRS 1000
Text Information
- Siglum
- KRS 1000
- Transliteration
- l ḫl bn whbʾl bn ʾdm h- gml w s²ʿhqm ḫḍʿ m ʿwr h- ḫṭṭ
- Translation
- By Ḫl son of Whbʾl son of ʾdm is [the drawing of] the male camel and may S²ʿhqm abase whoever scratches out the carving
Interpretation
- Commentary
- The drawing shows a Bactrian camel and the fact that it is called h-gml in the inscription suggests that there was no special name in Safaitic for animals of this breed. For the interpretation of ḫḍʿ cf Arabic ḫaḍḍaʿa-hu "it (proverty) lowered, humbled or abased him" (Lane 758a).
- Provenance
- Jordan
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Chiselled/incised
- Associated Drawings
- KRS 1000 d/1
- Associated Inscriptions
- KRS 997 (first face); 998-999; 1001 (third face)
- Inscriptions recorded by Geraldine King on the Basalt Desert Rescue Survey in north-eastern Jordan in 1989 and published here
- Lane, E.W. An Arabic-English Lexicon, Derived from the Best and Most Copious Eastern Sources. (Volume 1 in 8 parts [all published]). London: Williams & Norgate, 1863-1893.
- Site
- Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 1989
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0021628
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