KRS 1669
Text Information
- Siglum
- KRS 1669
- Transliteration
- l ʿdy bn ʿnhm w tẓr ḥyt f hy ʾlh blh
- Translation
- By ʿdy son of ʿnhm and he was waiting for some animals and so O ʾlh blh
Interpretation
- Commentary
- The name and patronym of the author are chiselled and hammered and the statement and the prayer are scratched. There two hammered letters or marks between this text and KRS 1670 with possibly two scratched w's below them. They do not seem to belong to the text.
- Provenance
- Jordan
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Name Distinguished
- Direct hammered/scratched
- Special Letter Forms
- ʿ a dot; d loop a dot; y loop a dot
- Technique
- Direct hammered/scratched & mu
- Associated Signs
- Scratched lines
- Associated Inscriptions
- KRS 1670 (second 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
- #0022298
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