KRS 1087
Text Information
- Siglum
- KRS 1087
- Transliteration
-
l nṣr bn ʿhd bn ḥnn bn ḥṯmt bn ʾnʿm bn ġlmt w h gdʿwḏ h{b} ṯʾr m- ʾl gʿ ẓlmn f ẓlmn f h lt ṯʾr l- ḏ yʿwr
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- Translation
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By Nṣr son of ʿhd son of Ḥnn son of Ḥḏmt son of ʾnʿm son of Ġlmt and O Gd ʿwḏ grant revenge from [the people of] the lineage of Gʿ [who] have acted extremely unjustly and so O Lt [grant] revenge to whoever scratches out [the writing]
OCIANA
- Language and Script
- Safaitic
Interpretation
- Commentary
- After the name of the first deity there is a h and another letter which is damaged by a chip. It is possible the latter should be read a b. For the interpretation of ẓlmn f ẓlmn see Al-Jallad 2016: 162.
- Editio Princeps
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Incised
- Direction of Script
- Curving boustrophedon
- Associated Inscriptions
- Al-Jallad, A. An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions. (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 80). Leiden: Brill, 2015.
- [KRS] 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
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0021715
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16 Sep, 2024
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