KRS 1538
Text Information
- Siglum
- KRS 1538
- Transliteration
-
l mḥlm bn ʾʾs¹d bn mḥlm ḏ- ʾl bwk w ḥll h- dr b- h- ḍʾn dṯʾ f ḫrṣ f h lt s¹lm m- ḏ ḫrṣ w ʿwr l- ḏ yʿwr h- s¹fr
OCIANA
- Translation
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By Mḥlm son of ʾʾs¹d son of Mḥlm of the lineage of Bwk and he camped here with the sheep during the season of the later rains and so he kept watch and so O Lt may he be secure from that which must be guarded against and [inflict] blindness on whoever scratches out the writing
OCIANA
- Language and Script
- Safaitic
Interpretation
- Commentary
- Fror the translation of m- ḏ ḫrṣ see Al-Jallad 2015: 292.
- Editio Princeps
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Scratched
- Direction of Script
- Boustrophedon
- Al-Jallad, A. An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions. (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 80). Leiden: Brill, 2015.
- [KRS] Inscriptions recorded by Geraldine King on the Basalt Desert Rescue Survey in north-eastern Jordan in 1989 and published here
- Site
- Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 1989
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0022167
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Updated
16 Sep, 2024
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OCIANA,. 'KRS 1538.' OCIANA. 16 Sep, 2024. https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/37989. Accessed: 14 Jul, 2025.