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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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