KRS 1563
Text Information
- Siglum
- KRS 1563
- Transliteration
- l ʾs¹lm bn bʾmrh bn ʿbdt bn s¹mk bn s²mt bn ----ʾl bn qny w tẓr ʾs¹my b- mlḥ ʿtq w ḫrṣ h- ḍf ʾgr f h rḍw bdd -h m- nʿm m- ʾgrt -h
- Translation
- By ʾs¹lm son of Bʾmrh son of ʿbdt son of S¹mk son of S²mt son of ----ʾl son of Qny and he was waiting for the rains during Aquarius a freed man having kept watch for the [lineage of] Ḍf as a hired man and so O Rḍw [grant him] his share in livestock as his compensation
Interpretation
- Commentary
- The last part of the inscription has been scratched over and the sixth name is difficult to read. The third m from the end has been filled in.
- Provenance
- Jordan
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Special Features
- Infilling
- Technique
- Scratched & mul. scratched
- Associated Inscriptions
- KRS 1564 (second face); 1565 (third face); 1566 (fourth 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
- #0022192
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