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KRS 1551

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 1551
Transliteration
l ʾs¹ḫr bn ḫdmt bn trml bn s¹ry bn s¹lm w ʾlmn b- ʿqbt f h lh rwḥ w mḥltn l- ḏ yʿwr h- s¹fr
Translation
By ʾs¹ḫr son of Ḫdmt son of trml son of S¹ry son of S¹lm and Mars was in Scorpio and so O Lh [grant] relief and [send] two [years] of dearth to whoever scratches out the writing

Interpretation

Commentary
For the interpretation of w ʾlmn b-ʿqbt see Al-Jallad 2014: 225–226; 2015: 260, 299; and Al-Jallad 2016: 87, 102. For a different interpretation of mḥltn Al-Jallad 2015: 69.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Scratched & scraped

Associated Inscriptions
KRS 1549 (first and second faces); 1550 (second face); 1552-1553 (third face)

  • 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
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0022180
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