KRS 1719
Text Information
- Siglum
- KRS 1719
- Transliteration
- l mrʿ bn ʿbd bn ʿḏ bn s²rb w kmʾ b- rʾy ʿqbt b
- Translation
- By Mrʿ son of ʿbd son of ʿḏ son of S²rb and he collected truffles at the rising of Scorpio b
Interpretation
- Commentary
- There is a b after the last word and it is possible the inscription is unfinished. There is some scratching next to the inscription. Truffles abound in the season of the later rains, from February to April, but they can continue to grow as late as June. Perhaps it was this especially long season that caused the author to mention it in an inscription. The final b could indicate that the inscription is incomplete.
- Provenance
- Jordan
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Incised & scratched
- Associated Inscriptions
- 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 I. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 25, 2014: 214-230.
- Site
- Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
- Date Found
- 1989
- Current Location
- In situ
- Subject
- Genealogy
- Script
- Safaitic
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0022348
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