KRS 1861

Siglum
KRS 1861
Alternative Sigla
KR 7
Transliteration
l bḥṯn bn ṣʿd bn ʾnʿm w ḥll h- dr
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Translation
By Bḥṯn son of Ṣʿd son of ʾnʿm and he camped here
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Language and Script
Safaitic

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
Macdonald 2009, II: 317 and n. 93: comment on ploughing in the drawing. ʿAbābnah MI 2017: 35–36.
Commentary
For other drawings of ploughing accompanied by Safaitic inscriptions see APSI I, 2 and 3, AWS 153, BES18 9, KEAS 1–3, and the discussions in Al-Khraysheh 1997 and ʿAbābnah [Ababneh] MI 2017.

Editio Princeps
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Technique
Incised
Direction of Script
Curving

Associated Drawings
KRS 1861 d/1 A drawing of a human figure ploughing with two unidentifiable animals pulling the plough. There is also a scorpion.

  • [APSI] ʿAbābnah [Ababneh], M.I. Ackerbau und Pflugszenen in safaitischen Inschriften und Zeichnungen. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 167, 2017: 35–46
  • [KEAS] Al-Khraysheh, F. Evidence of agriculture in the Safaitic inscriptions and drawings. Abhath Al-Yarmouk: Humanities & Social Sciences 13:2.A, 1997: 17–22.
  • [AWS] ʿAlūlū [Alulu], Ġ.M.Y. Nuqūš ṣafāʾiyyah ǧadīdah min ǧanūb sūriyyah, dirāsah tārīḫiyyah taḥlīliyyah. Damascus: Manšūrāt al-mudīriyyah al-ʿāmah li-l-āṯār wa-ʾl-matāḥif, wizārat al-ṯaqāfah, 2011.
  • [BES18] Inscriptions recorded during the Badia Epigraphic Survey 2018 and published here
  • [KR] King, G.M.H. The Basalt Desert Rescue Survey and Some Preliminary Remarks on the Safaitic Inscriptions and Rock Drawings. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 20, 1990: 55-78.
  • [KRS] Inscriptions recorded by Geraldine King on the Basalt Desert Rescue Survey in north-eastern Jordan in 1989 and published here
  • [MNH] Macdonald, M.C.A. Nomads and the Ḥawrān in the late Hellenistic and Roman periods: A reassessment of the epigraphic evidence. Syria 70, 1993: 303-413. [Reprinted with the same pagination, plus addenda and corrigenda as Article II in M.C.A. Macdonald, Literacy and Identity in Pre-Islamic Arabia, (Variorum Collected Studies Series no. 906), Farnham: Ashgate, 2009].
  • [RS.R] Rock drawings photographed by the late M.M. Al-Rūsān [Al-Rousan, Rousan] and published here.
Site
Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
Date Found
1989
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Camping, Drawing of a domestic animal, Drawing of a wild animal, Genealogy, Present in a place
Old OCIANA ID
#0022490
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Updated 16 Sep, 2024 by OCIANA