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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