KRS 1120
Text Information
- Siglum
- KRS 1120
- Transliteration
- l ʿḏ bn ʿqrb bn ḥmyn w wgd ʾṯr ʾb -h f ngʿ w ḥll h- dr {f} {h} lt s¹lm ---- {ḥ}dṯ s¹fr ʾb -h
- Translation
- By ʿḏ son of ʿqrb son of Ḥmyn and he found the inscription of his father and so he was sad and he camped here {and so} {O} Lt may he be secure ---- {he renewed} the writing of his father
Interpretation
- Commentary
- The two letters after the word dr are covered by an abrasion. The rock is damaged after the m of s¹lm and it is possible a w should be restored. The following ḥ is not entirely clear on the photograph. It seems likely that KRS 1121 was written by the author's father.
- Provenance
- Jordan
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Incised
- Associated Signs
- Cartouche around KRS 1120–1121; 7 lines surrounded by a cartouche
- 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
- #0021748
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