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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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