KRS 1508

Siglum: KRS 1508
Transliteration: l {{ʾ}}r{{s¹}}{{ʿ}} bn ʾnhm b<<>>{{n}} ʾṯw{{b}} w {ṣ}yr m- ġrb s¹nt ḥrb ḥb{q} w ʾs²ll
Translation: By {ʾrs¹ʿ} son of ʾnhm {son of} {ʾṯwb} and {he returned to a watering place} from settled lands the year of the war of {Ḥbq} and ʾs²ll

Interpretation

Commentary: Several letters of the text have been altered. In the first name a loop has been made on one fork of the ʾ forming a ṣ, a line has been added in the middle of the s¹ forming a ḥ, and a line has been drawn across the ʿ forming a w. There are scratches attached to the n of the second name and the h of the name has two lightly scratched lines added to one fork of the letter. The lines after the second b are difficult to interpret. The n seems to be written under the arm of the b and attached to it with a line and then there is the form of a s¹ which might have been added later. A scratched line has been added in the middle of one fork of the next ʾ and the curve of the following b has been joined up to form a m. The loop of the ṣ has been hammered over and only part of the circle of the q is visible on the photograph.

Inscriptions recorded by Geraldine King on the Basalt Desert Rescue Survey in north-eastern Jordan in 1989 and published here