KRS 1359
Text Information
- Siglum
- KRS 1359
- Transliteration
- l ʾlh bn nqr bn ḏkr {{b}}n s¹ḫb w h rḍy ʿwr l- m ʿwr h- s¹fr
- Translation
- By ʾlh son of Nqr son of Ḏkr {son of} S¹ḫb and O Rḍy [inflict] blindness on whoever scratches out the writing
Interpretation
- Commentary
- The fifteenth letter has the appearance of a m. However the line of the inner curve is shallower and thinner than the outer curve and the shape of the letter is different from the other m in the text suggesting that it has been tampered with and was originally a b.
- Provenance
- Jordan
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Incised & scratched
- Associated Signs
- Scratched cartouche surrounding this inscription and KRS 1361, and a partial cartouche of hammered dots; circle with rays
- Associated Inscriptions
- KRS 1358 (first face); 1360-1361
- 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
- #0021988
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