KRS 1352
Text Information
- Siglum
- KRS 1352
- Transliteration
-
l ʿwḏn bn ḫl bn ḥrb w rʿy h- ḍʾn w ts²wq ʾl- ʾḫ -h ʾzhr w ʾl- s²ʿr -h mġṯ f h lt qbll w ʿwr l- ḏ yʿwr mʿl h- ḥwq
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- Translation
-
By ʿwḏn son of Ḫl son of Ḥrb and he pastured the sheep and he longed for his brother ʾzhr and for his companion Mġṯ and so O Lt [grant] a reunion with loved ones and [inflict] blindness on whoever scratches out of jealousy
OCIANA
- Language and Script
- Safaitic
Interpretation
- Commentary
- The letter read as ʿ in the word s²ʿr has a shallow tail but it is almost certainly incidental. There is a shallow stroke after the first m and it is possible it should be read as a n. See Al-Jallad 2015: 333 for qbll, and 152 for mʿl ḥwq.
- Editio Princeps
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Incised & scratched
- Direction of Script
- Curving
- 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
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0021981
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16 Sep, 2024
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