KRS 1892
Text Information
- Siglum
- KRS 1892
- Transliteration
-
l ʿzz bn mṯn bn ḍfgt bn ---- bn wṭy bn s¹q w wrd f n{y}t b- ʾmt f h rḍw rw{ḥ}
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- Translation
-
By ʿzz son of Mṯn son of Ḍfgt son of ---- son of Wṭy son of S¹q and he came to a watering place and then migrated during Libra and so O Rḍw [grant] {relief from adversity and uncertainty}
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- Language and Script
- Safaitic
Interpretation
- Commentary
- The rock is chipped after the third bn and nothing remains of the following name or names before bn wṭy. Part of the loop of the second y is damaged. The last letter is damaged by the chip and some hammering. For the interpretation of f n{y}t b- ʾmt see Al-Jallad 2015: 332; and forthcoming.
- Editio Princeps
- OCIANA
- Technique
- Scratched
- Direction of Script
- Curving
- Associated Inscriptions
- KRS 1890-1891; 1893-1895
- Al-Jallad, A. An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions. (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 80). Leiden: Brill, 2015.
- Al-Jallad, A. An Ancient Arabian Zodiac. The Constellations in the Safaitic Inscriptions. Part II. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 27, 2016: 84–106.
- [KRS] 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
- Old OCIANA ID
- #0022521
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