KRS 1379
Text Information
- Siglum
- KRS 1379
- Transliteration
- l ḫṭs¹t bn s¹krn bn ḫṭs¹t bn zkr bn ẓnʾl bn s¹b w ʾḫḏ h- rgm w wgd hn ʿm -h f hy lt w ḏs²r nqʾt l- ḏ yʿwr h- s¹fr
- Translation
- By Ḫṭs¹t son of S¹krn son of Ḫṭs¹t son of Zkr son of Ẓnʾl son of S¹b and he took possession of the cairn and he found here his grandfather and so O Lt and Ḏs²r may whoever scratches out the writing be thrown out of the grave
Interpretation
- Commentary
- On ʾḫḏ h-rgm see Al-Jallad 2015: 298, and on the possible meaning of hn as "here" see p. 157, though he also translates it as "the mark of his grandfather" (p. 260)
- Provenance
- Jordan
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Scratched
- Associated Inscriptions
- KRS 1378 (first face)
- 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 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
- #0022008
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