KRS 1005
Text Information
- Siglum
- KRS 1005
- Transliteration
- l mrʾ bn ʾs¹ḫr bn s²ḥtr {h} s²ʿqm {m}ḥlt l- ḏ ʿwr h- ḫṭṭ
- Translation
- By Mrʾ son of ʾs¹ḫr son of S²ḥtr {O} S²ʿqm [send] {a dearth} of pasture to whoever scratches out the carving
Interpretation
- Commentary
- A prong of the first h and the third m are damaged by abrasions. Note this is one of a handful of examples of the divine name s²ʿ-h-qm spelt s²ʿqm, see for instance KRS 56, 344, 1886, etc.
- Provenance
- Jordan
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Incised & scratched
- Associated Drawings
- KRS 1005 d/1
- Associated Inscriptions
- 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
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0021633
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