KRS 1131
Text Information
- Siglum
- KRS 1131
- Transliteration
- l ʿm bn ḥd bn ʾbgr bn ʾs¹ḫr bn s²ḥtr w ḥl ṣ{y}r h- dr m- ʿdy {w} ḫrṣ ʾhl -h ḥḍr f h ʾḥd w h lt s¹lm w ġnmt l- ḏ dʿ{y}
- Translation
- By ʿm son of Ḥd son of ʾbgr son of ʾs¹ḫr son of S²ḥtr and he camped here {while returning to a watering place} from ʿdy {and} he was on the look-out for his family who were camping near a permanent source of water and so O ʾḥd and O Lt may he who {would read aloud} be secure and have booty
Interpretation
- Commentary
- The loops of the first and third y's are doubtful and the crossbar of the second w is faint. The letters after the fifth ʾ are written on the edge of the rock and it is not entirely sure that there are not further letters between the ʾ and the ḥ.
- Provenance
- Jordan
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Incised
- Associated Signs
- 7 lines
- 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
- #0021759
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