KRS 1374
Text Information
- Siglum
- KRS 1374
- Transliteration
- l ʾrs¹ bn {h}----ḏn w tẓr h- s¹[m]y w ʾlmn
- Translation
- By ʾrs¹ son of {h}----ḏn and he waited for the rains and Mars
Interpretation
- Commentary
- The first and second letters of the second name and the m of s¹my have been damaged by hammering. The s¹'s have tails and have been rotated 90º. For ʾlmn as the planet Mars see Al-Jallad 2014: 225–226; 2015: 260, 299; but see also Al-Jallad 2016: 87, 102.
- Provenance
- Jordan
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Special Letter Forms
- y's the loops have a line going through the middle
- Technique
- Incised
- Inscriptions recorded by Geraldine King on the Basalt Desert Rescue Survey in north-eastern Jordan in 1989 and published here
- Al-Jallad, A.M. An ancient Arabian zodiac. The constellations in the Safaitic inscriptions, Part I. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 25, 2014: 214-230.
- Al-Jallad, A.M. An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions. (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 80). Leiden: Brill, 2015.
- Site
- Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 1989
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0022003
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