KRS 1039
Text Information
- Siglum
- KRS 1039
- Transliteration
- l ʿlm bn ẓnʾl bn ʿlm w mrd ʿl- h- mlk grfṣ f h lt fṣyt ks¹r h- s¹ls¹lt
- Translation
- By ʿlm son of Ẓnʾl son of ʿlm and he rebelled against king Agrippa and so O Lt [grant] deliverance of the breaker of the chain
Interpretation
- Apparatus Criticus
- MHED pp. 289-290 & nn. 35-36: w mrd ʿl- h- mlk grfṣ f h lt fṣyt ks¹r h- s¹ls¹lt -"and he rebelled against Agrippa; and so O Lt [grant] deliverance of the breaker of the chain". MNH p. 343 & nn. 259-260: on h- mlk.
- Commentary
- See also KRS 1023.
- Provenance
- Jordan
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Scratched
- Inscriptions recorded by Geraldine King on the Basalt Desert Rescue Survey in north-eastern Jordan in 1989 and published here
- Macdonald, M.C.A. Nomads and the Ḥawrān in the late Hellenistic and Roman periods: A reassessment of the epigraphic evidence. Syria 70, 1993: 303-413. [Reprinted with the same pagination, plus addenda and corrigenda as Article II in M.C.A. Macdonald, Literacy and Identity in Pre-Islamic Arabia, (Variorum Collected Studies Series no. 906), Farnham: Ashgate, 2009].
- Macdonald, M.C.A. Herodian Echoes in the Syrian Desert. Pages 285-290 in S. Bourke & J.-P. Descoeudres (eds), Trade, Contact, and the Movement of Peoples in the Eastern Mediterranean. Studies in Honour of J. Basil Hennessy. (Mediterranean Archaeology. Supplement, 3). Sydney: Mediterranean Archaeology, 1995.
- Site
- Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 1989
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0021667
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