KRS 1881
Text Information
- Siglum
- KRS 1881
- Transliteration
- l ʿqdt bn ʿbd w rʿy h- nḫl nwy w wrd b- ks¹ʾ {s¹}{n}n ʿ{q}bt h- ʾḍyt h- ʿqbt h- ḫṭṭ
- Translation
- By ʿqdt son of ʿbd and he pastured the valley migrating with the tribe and he came to a watering-place during the cosmical setting/full moon of {s¹----} Scorpio ----
Interpretation
- Commentary
- One line of the letter after the word ks¹ʾ is faint and if it is a s¹ it would have a different stance to the other s¹ in the text. The following n is rather indistinct. The second q is doubtful as one half of the loop is filled in and it is possible the letter should be read as a d. See the commentary on this inscription in Al-Jallad (forthcoming)
- Provenance
- Jordan
- Original Reading Credit
- OCIANA
- Original Translation Credit
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Scratched
- Associated Signs
- Lines tapering to a point; miscellaneous lines
- Associated Drawings
- KRS 1881 d/1
- 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 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
- #0022510
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