KRS 1257
Text Information
- Siglum
- KRS 1257
- Transliteration
- l {ʾ}s¹ḫr bn gḥfl bn lbʾt w rʿy h- ḍʾn w q{n}ṭ h- s²nʾ f h gdḍf s¹lm w nqʾt l- ḏ ʿwr h- s¹fr w ts²wq l- ʾhl -h f h s²ʿhqm qbll s¹lm
- Translation
- By {ʾs¹ḫr} son of Gḥfl son of Lbʾt and he pastured the sheep and was {afraid} of the enemy and so O Gdḍf may he be secure and may whoever scratches out the inscription be thrown out of the grave and he longed for his family and so O S²ʿhqm may there be a safe reunion with loved ones
Interpretation
- Commentary
- One fork of the second letter is faint and the n read in qnṭ is not entirely certain.
- Provenance
- Jordan
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Incised scratched & scraped
- Associated Signs
- 8 lines joined together at one end
- Associated Inscriptions
- KRS 1256 (first face)
- 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
- #0021886
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