KRS 1850
Text Information
- Siglum
- KRS 1850
- Transliteration
- l mʿn bn ms¹k bn mʿn bn mtn bn ḥny bn ms¹k bn s²rb bn gld bn ġlmt ḏ- ʾl dʾf w s²ty h- dr s¹nt myt ʾdrm f h lt s¹lm w ʿwr l- ḏ yʿwr h- s¹fr
- Translation
- By Mʿn son of Ms¹k son of Mʿn son of Ḥny son of Ms¹k son of S²rb son of Gld son of Ġlmt of the lineage Dʾf and he spent the winter here the year ʾdrm died and so O Lt may he be secure and [inflict] blindness on whoever scratches out the inscription
Interpretation
- Commentary
- There is a l, n, and m scratched next to the g of the eighth name. The letters have been slightly rubbed over. The ʿ of the word ʿwr is a dot unlike the other ʿ's in the text which are small circles The line across the circle of the following w is rather shallow.
- Provenance
- Jordan
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Special Letter Forms
- ʿ a dot (others circles)
- Technique
- Rocking-blade & incised
- 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
- #0022479
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