KRS 1948

Siglum
KRS 1948
Transliteration
l gnʾl bn bġḍ w rʿy h- s²rgt s²ḥ
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Translation
By Gnʾl son of Bġḍ and he pastured on s²īḥ [in] the area where water flows from the ḥarrah
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Language and Script
Safaitic

Interpretation

Commentary
This inscription and KRS 1949 are on an outcrop on a Wādī bank between 1E18 and 1E24. For the meaning of s²rgt see Groom 1983: 268. For s²ḥ see Mandaville 2011: 278.

Editio Princeps
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Technique
Incised
Direction of Script
Curving

Associated Signs
Cartouche with 4 lines drawn parallel to it; 6 series of 7 lines attached to the cartouche; 2 series of 7 lines
Associated Inscriptions

  • Groom, N. A Dictionary of Arabic Topography and Placenames. A Transliterated Arabic-English Dictionary with an Arabic Glossary of Topographical Words and Placenames. London: Longman / Beirut: Librairie du Liban, 1983.
  • [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
#0022577
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