KRS 1009
Text Information
- Siglum
- KRS 1009
- Transliteration
- l qḥs² bn ys¹lm bn ʿwḏn bn mlk w rʿ<<>>y hʾrq w r---- f h s²qm s¹lm m- bʾs¹
- Translation
- By Qḥs² son of Ys¹lm son of ʿwḏn son of Mlk and {he pastured} [in] the year of drought w r---- and so O S²qm make him secure from misfortune
Interpretation
- Commentary
- There is a h between the ʿ and y of rʿy, with a horizontal line between the fork of the h and the loop of the y. The author appears to have omitted both the ʿ and h in s²ʿhqm. For h-ʾrq cf Arabic awrāq "a year of drought".
- Provenance
- Jordan
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Incised & scratched
- 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
- #0021637
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