OCIANA
Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

KRS 1562

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 1562
Transliteration
l ḥlṯt bn s²nf bn ʾzr w tẓr mny f rwḥ ʾy lt
Translation
By Ḥlṯt son of S²nf son of ʾzr and he awaited Fate and so [grant] relief from adversity and uncertainty O Lt

Interpretation

Commentary
It is notable that the vocative particle hy is here represented by ʾy just as the definite article h- can be replaced by ʾ-. See Al-Jallad 2015: 158.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Name Distinguished
Scratched/scraped & scratc
Technique
Scratched/scraped & scratched

  • 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
#0022191
Download Images