KRS 1040

Siglum: KRS 1040
Transliteration: l s²g{ʾ} bn s²ḥtr bn ʾs¹ḫr w wgd ʾṯr ---- f bʾs¹ mẓll
Translation: By {S²gʾ} son of S²ḥtr son of ʾs¹ḫr and he found the traces of ---- and so despair for those who remain

Interpretation

Commentary: The line of one prong of the ʾ is rather faint. After the t of the second name the author continues the inscription below the beginning of the text probably because he calculated that he would not have enough room unless he made the loop of the inscription rather larger. He left out the r of the of the third name and added it below the s¹ and ḫ. It is difficult to read the name after the word ʾṯr although traces of letters are visible. For the interpretation of bʾs¹ mẓll see Al-Jallad 2015: 207.

Inscriptions recorded by Geraldine King on the Basalt Desert Rescue Survey in north-eastern Jordan in 1989 and published here
Al-Jallad, A.M. An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions. (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 80). Leiden: Brill, 2015.