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KRS 1944

Text Information

Siglum
KRS 1944
Transliteration
l nẓr bn ḥfẓ bn s¹wd w h mlk h- s¹my my
Translation
By Nẓr son of Ḥfẓ son of S¹wd and O King of the heavens [let there] be water

Interpretation

Commentary
For the interpretation of the prayer see Al-Jallad 2015: 166.

Provenance
Jordan
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Incised

Associated Signs
Cartouche; 7 lines; circle with rays

  • 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 Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions. (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 80). Leiden: Brill, 2015.
Site
Al-Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
Date Found
1989
Current Location
In situ
Subject
Genealogy
Script
Safaitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0022573
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