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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