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KRS 1706

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 1706
Transliteration
l ys¹lm bn ʿwḏn bn mlk w ʿyd h- ḍʾn b- ḥrn b- rʾy ʾʾly f h bʿls¹mn w h ḏs²r w lt w s²ʿhqm fṣyt w ʿwr ḏ yʿwr
Translation
By Ys¹lm son of ʿwḏn son of Mlk and he brought the sheep back [to a place] in the Ḥawrān during the rising of Taurus and so O Bʿls¹mn and O Ḏs²r and Lt and S²ʿhqm [grant] deliverance and blind whoever scratches out [the writing]

Interpretation

Commentary
For the translation of b- rʾy ʾʾly see Al-Jallad 2016: 91–92.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Incised & 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 Ancient Arabian Zodiac. The Constellations in the Safaitic Inscriptions. Part II. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 27, 2016: 84–106.
Site
Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
Date Found
1989
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0022335
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